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The Samurai Killer of South City Seth Herter’s life in St. Louis was full of delusions. But the murder was all too real Written by

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Armed only with Facebook Live, a St. Louis trucker goes after pedophiles. What could go wrong?

The second half of the LaBute Festival is a welcome return to form, writes Paul Friswold

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NEWS STL Trucker’s Game: Catching Pedophiles Written by

DANNY WICENTOWSKI

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t’s past 2:30 a.m. on a recent Saturday, and from behind the camera of his smartphone, professional trucker and newbie pedophile hunter Anthony Green observes his target pull up in a white pickup truck. He follows the truck to a BP gas station parking lot in north St. Louis.

The trap has been laid, and now Green is ready to spring it shut.

“There he is,” he says into the camera, which is streaming the footage to Facebook and thousands of viewers. “He’s a sicklooking fuck.”

A St. Louis native and founder of Truckers Against Predators, Green performed five prior stings between launching the group July 7 and the July 14 livestream. This is the third to take place in St. Louis. The sting locations have followed Green’s trucking routes, resulting in recorded operations in Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Missouri.

In St. Louis that Saturday, the target of the early-morning sting is a 46-year-old man, a local bartender “into BDSM,” Green tells the viewers, adding that the man had brought along condoms — sheepskin — for a supposed tryst with a fourteen-year-old girl. The girl, of course, is actually a decoy working with Green. With the camera in selfie mode, Green describes to his audience how the man had texted about his desire to take the girl’s virginity and have anal sex.

In the span of little more than a week, Green has confronted multiple targets in parking lots, berating and shaming them in front of a growing online audience. In one case, in Texas, the target left the scene in police handcuffs.

Each time, Green tells the men they are being filmed “for your

safety and mine.” In some cases, his videos show these men admitting what they’d done. Others deny and deflect, or cry, begging Green to give them another chance.

In the footage from Saturday, Green flips the camera view to the front-facing mode, which reveals the target of the sting: a clean-shaven, middle-aged man with a distinctively curled black mustache. (Since he has not been charged with a crime, RFT is not naming him.)

Green, camera rolling, greets the man by name. The man halts.

“You and me need to talk,” Green tells him. “You know, the things you were worried about when you talking to the decoy ...”

“Goddammit,” the man says in a deflated voice.

It’s an exchange that should be familiar to anyone who’s seen To Catch a Predator — especially that iconic TV moment when host Chris Hansen emerges from a side room and the cameras zoom in on the suddenly sweat-slicked face of a man realizing he’s walked into a trap, as Hansen drops the now-infamous line, “Why don’t you take a seat right over there.”

Green doesn’t use the line, and he’s certainly no ultra-composed, TV-ready reporter like Hansen.

On the Facebook video from Saturday, Green opens by telling the man that he’s not a cop, but then adds, “I work with police.”

Then Green really lays into him: “The fuck are you thinking, man? Did you read the things you were saying to this girl? We could totally take everything to your boss and everything else.

I’m interested in why in the hell you’re trying to ruin a little girl’s life that’s a virgin.”

The man with the mustache just stands there, taking Green’s verbal barrage. He drops his head to his chest, repeating, “I don’t know, man, I don’t know.”

Reached by phone a few days after the sting, Green explains that he’s a longtime fan of citizen-led efforts to identify and publicly shame child predators, especially a group called The Ultimate Decoy.

Dozens of other groups are active across the U.S. and overseas, with the hunters generally uploading videos of confrontations with men — and it’s always men — who are lured into the trap by decoys act-

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Truckers Against Predators exposed these four guys in its stings, which have taken place from Nevada to Missouri. | SCREENSHOTS VIA TRUCKERSAGAINSTPREDATORS ing as minors.

“I just feel like there’s a movement — there’s at least twenty different hunter teams in the country,” he says. “We just based ours around trucking because that’s what I do.”

Indeed, Green follows a long line

“Whenever I meet one of these guys, I feel like I’ve actually saved a child that night.

Instead of them meeting up with a little kid, they meet up with a 350-pound man.” of similar efforts. The most prominent, NBC’s To Catch a Predator, had just a two-year run from 2006 to 2008 before being canceled in the wake of a target, a prosecutor, committing suicide. The Internet group NBC worked with, Perverted Justice, had a track record predating the show, and boasted more than 100 convictions.

But the show came under heavy criticism. Beyond the civil rights

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issues, an expert later told the New Republic, it was simply dangerous. “We see situations that in a second turn volatile,” James Drylie, a professor of criminal justice at Kean University, told the magazine. “Imagine hearing, ‘Lights, camera, action, you’re on TV.’ A person can just explode — they’re looking to escape and they’ll use any means.”

That hasn’t happened yet to Green. (He says he carries a firearm for protection during the stings.) It also doesn’t take a TV production to seek out targets. It’s depressingly easy.

Here’s how Green sets up a sting: First, decoys identifying themselves as adult women will post on various social media and messaging apps — apps like MeetMe, Whispr, Musicly.ly, LiveMe and Plenty of Fish, he alleges, are “terrible safe havens for pedophiles.”

These initial posts aren’t explicitly geared towards predators, but rather offer an innocuous invitation, something like a 26-year-old woman in town for a night and looking to hang out.

“Within ten minutes we’ll get 80 to 100 responses,” Green says. After two or three messages, however, the decoy “reveals” that she’s not 26, but fourteen. At that point, about 50 percent of the respondents stop communicating, Green says.

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in meeting up with girls only a few years older than Green’s own twelve-year-old daughter.

After the initial contact, the decoys arrange a meeting — always a public place, preferably late at night or early in the morning, to reduce the possibility of bystanders interfering, Green says.

He adds, “It’s definitely dangerous.” Green claims that he consulted St. Louis police officers before launching Truckers Against Predators earlier this month.

An officer told him not to get involved, he says, for the sake of his own safety.

But Green says the risk is worth it. The trucker says he himself was sexually abused as a child, and he believes that citizen-led hunter groups are doing vital work, raising awareness that predators exist online and in real life, in great numbers, and that they’re constantly looking for victims.

“These people are your neighbors,” Green says. “Whenever I meet one of these guys, I feel like I’ve actually saved a child that night. And instead of them meeting up with a little kid, they meet up with a 350-pound man.”

For Green, perhaps the hardest part of the job is keeping his cool when getting face to face with the sort of person who would drive to a gas station at 2:30 a.m. with condoms and the intention of taking a fourteen-year-old girl’s virginity.

On Saturday night, Green admits, he lost his composure. On the video — which, as of this writing, has nearly 40,000 views — he spends more than ten minutes castigating his target, telling him that he’ll likely be raped in prison and that maybe he should just

Anthony Green, the trucker behind Truckers Against Predators. | SCREENSHOT VIA FACEBOOK jump off a bridge.

At one point, Green threatens to call the cops to the gas station if the man keeps evading his questions. Later, Green appears to yell toward some bystanders, informing them that the man had tried to have sex with a fourteen-year-old.

Off-camera, someone shouts back, “Knock his ass out!” and “You should be killed motherfucker!” and “Cut his balls off!”

“Do you know how bad I want to turn this camera off right now?”

Green asks the man. “There’s no curing people like you. None. No fucking cure.”

During his later interview, Green tells RFT that he regrets involving the bystanders and that he won’t do it again — not out of sympathy for the target of the sting, but because one of those bystanders could have taken matters into their own hands. That wouldn’t be good for Green.

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“If someone would have hurt him, I would have been held responsible,” Green says. Still, he understands the impulse to hurt predators. Considering his own experience as a sex-abuse victim, he says that if he was in the bystander’s position, “I might take a swing at him. I might.”

Green maintains that he’s not a vigilante, and that he’s not out to bring violent retribution on the predators he hunts. He wants arrests. However, to date, only one man — a target in Texas — has left the scene of a sting in police custody.

“I’m working closely with police to try to attain arrests,” Green says. “If a DA doesn’t want to pick up charges because I’m not a police officer, then what I’m going to do is not expose them live. What I’m going to do is still expose them, but I’m still going to give all of the chat logs to the police up front, beforehand, so they can do their sting.”

Reached by email last week, St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman Michelle Woodling says that the department is aware of the Saturday incident.

“We have nothing further at this time as the investigation is ongoing,” she writes.

It’s not clear whether Green’s sting operations will lead to charges in Missouri. The state statute defining the crime of Enticement of a Child seems expressly written to exclude non-police sting operations. The statute includes a provision that reads, “It is not a defense to a prosecution for a violation of this section that the other person was a peace officer masquerading as a minor.” So what if the other person isn’t a police officer at all?

Is that a defense? Would the evidence gathered prior to the live-

“I feel like internet justice is sometimes better than criminal justice.” streamed confrontation give police legal cover to arrest the perp, or, for that matter, for a prosecutor to issue charges?

Green thinks it should.

“The law is kind of gray,” he admits. “If the police don’t want to pick up prosecution, then we’re going to go to the public and get 100, 200,000 signatures, and we’re going to go to the state legislature to try to get the law changed.”

Yet even in the absence of prosecution, Green is making an impact. According to people posting on the Saturday video, the mustachioed man is an employee of several local bars, most recently Hendrick’s BBQ in St. Charles. A manager there hung up on a reporter when asked about the man by name. Hendrick’s told a concerned citizen who reached out via private message that the man was no longer an employee.

For Green, the social result — the public awareness — makes his own efforts worthwhile, even if the guy doesn’t end up behind bars.

“I feel like internet justice is sometimes better than criminal justice,” he says. “These men are not innocent; they are attempting to meet a child for sexual activity.

I’m not a vigilante, and jail is really what I want, but I definitely think there’s a big value of the internet exposures. Maybe more so than jail.” n

Scooters Are Gone Before We Could Hate Them Written by

DANIEL HILL

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he large cache of electric scooters that were unceremoniously dumped onto the streets of downtown St. Louis last Thursday have left as quickly as they came.

Bird Rides Inc., which is responsible for the powered rideshare vehicles, has agreed to pull the scooters off city streets after St. Louis officials said they were operating without a permit, the Post-Dispatch reports.

The company’s electric scooters are the latest entry in the world of ridesharing, joining LimeBike and Ofo in dumping shit with wheels all over the St. Louis area, and in this case employing an attitude of “I dunno, you figure it out� when it comes to logistics.

They are also wildly controversial in the cities where they’ve been rolled out to date. Milwaukee’s Board of Aldermen, for example, recently voted to remove theirs from the streets, citing the “chaos� they’ve created in regard to public safety.

This came after the city sued Bird Rides Inc. for disregarding a cease-and-desist

order. City leaders cited a complaint from a pregnant woman who was struck by a rider as one example of the problems they’ve caused there.

In San Francisco, local media has taken to referring to the scooters with words like “scourge� and “invasion,� suggesting of the tech companies responsible for them, “Maybe it’s time to disrupt the disrupters.�

In Oakland, city-council members have proposed new rules and regulations for the scooters, which they have to pull out of Lake Merritt multiple times a week. “We definitely need them not to be in the lake,� Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan tells NBC matter-of-factly.

It is a shame that St. Louis was not given the opportunity to hate on these things with the same fervor as these other cities, as St. Louis is prodigiously talented at hating on things. We probably would have had ourselves a great time drinking beers and watching city workers holler and curse as they attempted to drag scores of the easier-to-throw-than-aLimeBike vehicles out of the Mississippi.

But according to city officials, Bird didn’t bother even telling anyone that they’d be dumping their trash onto our streets. “A phone call would’ve gone a long way,� St. Louis City Traffic Commissioner Deanna Venker tells Fox 2. “We have reached out to Bird to step back a little here. Let’s get on the same page and get a permit filled out and make sure all those requirements are met.�

Alas, poor Bird scooters, we hardly knew thee. | SHUTTERSTOCK.COM Koran Addo, a spokesman for Mayor Lyda Krewson, tells the Post-Dispatch that the city’s existing rules regarding bikeshare services were recently updated to include scooters, but that policy won’t be voted on until next week. “We are in favor of these dockless programs,� Addo tells the daily, “but this company did not go about it in the right way.�

But fret not: Bird seems to be optimistic that St. Louis citizens will get the opportunity to start hating on their product sooner rather than later — as early, perhaps, as this week.

“In partnership with the City of St. Louis, we have agreed to remove all Birds from the city until scooters are added to the city’s dockless vehicle program next week,� the company says in a statement. “We are in close communication with local officials and are working together on our permit application, and we look forward to relaunching in St. Louis next week.�

Assuming their optimism is warranted, you know where to find us when that happens: down by the river, Busch in hand, waiting for the inevitable. Let’s get to hating. n

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Nearly two months have passed since Seth Herter thought he was the Antichrist.

The realization that he was not — made possible through a combination of anti-psychotic and mood-stabilizing medications — came to him in the St. Louis City Justice Center, where he has been locked up since May after slaughtering another man with a samurai sword.

For years, he had talked of himself in online posts as the “White Rider,” a reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the Bible’s Book of Revelation. He believed he could control all the electricity in the world and that thousands of people were clamoring to see him dance. His delusions had led to a smattering of scrapes and arrests. But in April, his thoughts turned significantly darker.

“I started to feel like it was time to start punishing people,” he recalls.

Herter is 29 years old, stands six feet four inches tall and wears a scruffy goatee. In the pale light of a jailhouse visiting booth, a splash of acne reddens his cheeks. He has begun to regain a bit of the weight he lost while fasting during his delusions. He lowers the waistband of his yellow uniform to reveal angry pink patches on both hips — friction burns from a rope he wore cinched around himself for a month, he says. The fasting and the rope were part of a biblically themed penance that Herter believed would increase his powers.

“I got a hairshirt and everything,” he says, later adding, “I believed so many crazy things.”

Convinced the CIA had embedded a chip in his ear, Herter even sat down one day with a mirror and a knife and tried to cut it out. He later went to an urgent care, hoping doctors would find the chip with an X-ray.

He sounds disgusted or embarrassed as he tells these stories, like a person realizing after the fact he has been fooled by an obvious scammer. But in this case, he was tricked by his own mind.

In some ways, it is a relief to return to reality. In others, it is crushing. He knew the man he killed.

More than knew — he says they had dated for years. They had recently split up, but Herter says he called his victim on the day of the killing because he thought people were in his walls and furniture, and he needed help clearing them out. His face slowly turns red as he talks, and then he sobs. “I loved him so much,” he cries out. “Can you please say that? Please tell people that I’m not a monster.”

St. Louis police and a medical examiner’s spokeswoman identified the man as 55-year-old Christopher McCarthy. In a probablecause statement, a detective says McCarthy was stabbed to death.

Herter will not discuss “the particulars” of the killing, but he blames his own mental illness.

“It wasn’t like I wanted this to happen,” he says. “I was in the middle of a psychotic break, and it ended up really bad.”

In the anguish of clarity, he says it is a nightmare to learn that so many perceptions he had were wrong and that they cost someone his life. But as the real world and its consequences barrel in, there is one big piece of the puzzle that he can’t attribute to delusion or a

Left: The blood-smeared bathroom in Seth Herter’s south St. Louis apartment was the scene of a nightmare come to life.

trick of the mind.

He says he had known the victim for four or five years — a claim supported by others, including a former neighbor — but that the name Christopher McCarthy was new to him.

“I thought his name was Tim,” Herter says. “He told me he was Timothy Wilson. When they told me he was Christopher, I was blown away.”

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n May 3, a gruesome scene awaited St. Louis police inside Herter’s Southamptonneighborhood apartment.

As detectives entered the one-bedroom unit, they were greeted by an array of religious imagery. On a bulletin board, Herter had used thumbtacks to pin renderings of Jesus and the Virgin Mary next to handwritten notes: a two-page list of “Names of God,” account numbers for EBT cards and a list of personal debts with dollar amounts. He had saved prayer cards and outlined a series of Lenten sacrifices on lined notebook paper. “No Sex, Porn, or Masturbation,” he scrawled above pledges to forgo sugar and soda.

Near the bottom, he wrote “Penance: Fast, Abstain, Rope, Cilice.”

In the bathroom, police found the center of the crime scene.

The killing had been brutal, spilling blood across the tile floor and spattering the walls all the way up to a window ledge above the bathtub, where a yellow rubber duck was flecked with red. Police would later note that Herter’s victim had cuts all over his body.

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was killed on May 2, the day before they found his body, according to court documents. The same report says police also found a “samurai style sword” in the apartment.

Herter was already gone.

Chris Andoe, a real estate agent who handles rentals in the building, says a maintenance man ran into Herter in the hallway on May 3 just before he left. There had been ongoing complaints from other tenants, says Andoe, who is also editor of Out In STL, a magazine owned by the RFT’s parent company.

“He was on the cusp of eviction several times, because of noise and excessive traffic,” Andoe says.

Herter was known to sing loudly and smoke compulsively. More than a few neighbors had nervously eyed the sword he sometimes carried while whizzing around on his orange-and-black scooter.

The problem of the day was a window next to the hallway door.

It kept getting broken. No one could say for sure who was responsible, but suspicion focused on Herter or possibly his guests.

It had been Andoe who rented the apartment to Herter. Originally, his application was denied, but Herter was able to find a cosigner, and Andoe walked him through the paperwork.

“He’s kind of a childlike guy,” Andoe recalls. Herter told him, “You’re very kind and sexy to be so helpful,” an over-the-top compliment that struck Andoe as odd.

“I got the impression that was the way he got through the world, by flattering men in position to help him.”

In the hallway May 3, confronted by the maintenance man, Herter seemed jittery and brusque, especially when the worker said he needed to inspect the apartment for damage. To let the man in would be to reveal the horror of McCarthy’s death.

In Herter’s telling, he says he forcefully told the worker “not today,” and sent the man on his way.

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“ONE PERSON HAS ALREADY LOST THEIR LIFE OVER THIS. DO TWO PEOPLE HAVE TO LOSE THEIR LIVES?”

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But Andoe says Herter, after initially refusing to allow entry, pretended he left his apartment key in his car and excused himself to get it. The maintenance man waited as Herter instead slipped into McCarthy’s 2015 Chevrolet Equinox and drove off. It would be another day before police tracked him to a rundown motel about 70 miles away.

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eth Herter grew up in upstate New York and Alabama, bouncing around the South after high school. He says he was in Texas in his early twenties when he was first diagnosed with mental illness, including post-traumatic stress disorder and schizoaffective disorder — a mental condition that encompasses symptoms of schizophrenia, such as delusions and hallucinations, as well as aspects of bipolar or other mood disorders.

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Herter’s mother had similarly shown symptoms of mental illness in her early twenties, says his father, Greg Herter. She abandoned the family when Seth was just three years old and his sisters were two years old and six months. Greg Herter says he scrambled to keep everything together, but it was hard on the kids and him.

“We’ve had counseling through the years with different places, different people, because we all needed it,” he says in a phone interview. Still, he thought they were managing. All the kids were top students, and Herter’s sisters have both been successful. While Herter seemed to lack much motivation to work, his father says, he was always bright.

“He was a really delightful child,” Greg Herter says. “He never drank or did drugs. He was on the chess club, for Christ’s sake.”

But things changed as Herter grew older. Raised Catholic, he considered joining the priesthood, and had even hitchhiked after

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high school to a monastery about 300 miles way, he and his father say. Herter says he was rejected from the order for reasons he still doesn’t know. With no other real plans, he began to drift from city to city. “I’d find a friend and move to another place,” he says.

Twice his travels brought him to St. Louis: first around 2010 or 2011, and again in mid-2013 after another stint in Texas.

In St. Louis, his illness caused him to act out in various, sometimes-public ways. He danced on street corners and clashed with neighbors. He amassed religious icons in his apartment and wrote long lists of people to pray for in a green journal. (Miscarried children and Barack Obama made the list. So did Donald Trump and Herter’s great-grandmother.)

Most of what he did was harmless.

“They saw him as a very comical guy, riding around on his little scooter,” Greg Herter says of St. Louis’ reaction to his son.

On many mornings, Herter could be found along Hampton

Avenue, performing for groggy commuters. He might stop anywhere along the roadway south of Interstate 44, but he seemed to prefer the Chippewa intersection.

Kevin Bennett, 37, regularly saw him there as he headed to work.

“It seemed like a very positive thing,” he says. “He wasn’t yelling at anybody or blaring obnoxious music.”

Waiting at a light one morning, Bennett filmed a 55-second video.

Herter, well dressed in a camelhair coat and dark scarf, spins and dips, dancing as if he were in a nightclub instead of across the street from Target, in the shadow of a Walgreens.

“Hampton Dancing Man, getting after it this morning,” Bennett says in the video. “Putting out the good vibes for all the commuters.”

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but a Fox 2 producer took notice, typed up six sentences and posted the video on the TV station’s website.

“We can’t tell if it was the great deal he found at Target, the Big Mac he just ate or the Walgreen’s drug store that got him shaking,” the story said.

Everyone may be entitled to their fifteen minutes of fame, but this was only about 30 seconds’ worth. Still, in Herter’s mind, it provided support for the bizarre theories slowly taking hold. Of his dancing on Hampton, he says now, “That was me going out in public and demonstrating to people that I was the Antichrist.”

The performances were a test. If others took notice, it meant they saw his powers, and that meant his powers must be real. It did not occur to him that anyone dancing on the corner of busy road would draw some attention.

Online, he blogged about his “public dance ministry,” linking to the Fox 2 story. “It has been very successful in the local area, and has caused quite a stir in the local community,” he wrote.

Herter’s name was not in the news story or in the posts on Reddit or YouTube. Bennett says he never actually met him and knew nothing about his background, much less his subsequent involvement in a murder, until being contacted by the RFT. “It’s shocking,” he says. “I was actually wondering what he did all day besides stand on the corner and dance.”

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n 2016, Seth Herter moved into an apartment on Nottingham Avenue in the placid St. Louis Hills neighborhood.

Technically, a 73-year-old man named Richard Krechel rented the place, but a neighbor says Herter was a roommate. A third man was there so much he practically lived with them, too, the neighbor says. The other tenants in the building didn’t know any of their names at first, so they gave the men nicknames. Krechel was “Humpty Dumpty” for his grouchy demeanor. They called Herter “Pony,” after spotting the image of a horse affixed to his scooter. The third man was just “Numero Tres,” a sort of featureless nickname because they knew little about him.

Herter had a hard time keeping

decent guy, she says. She eventually learned his name was Tim, but that was about it. She assumed he worked on a road crew or something, because he would come home wearing a reflective vest.

The trio moved out over the holidays, leaving behind a cache of religious items that management left on the curb. The neighbor would see Herter cruise past on his scooter from time to time, but she did not know about the murder until being contacted by the RFT. Even then, the name of the victim, Christopher McCarthy, did not ring a bell. News stories about the killing did not include a photo or hardly any details about him.

But as soon as a reporter forwards a photo, she instantly recognizes him. He was Numero Tres. Tim.

“ T HER E WAS PAR T OF ME T HAT FELT R E ALLY BAD F OR H IM .

HE SEEMED LO S T TO ME .” apartments. “People hate me,” he explains. “I’ve always been a very polarizing person for some reason.”

He notes multiple times a neighbor or a landlord “took a disliking” to him, including one building owner who spotted him practicing with his sword in the backyard. Inevitably, Herter and Krechel would have to leave. (Krechel refused to speak to the RFT, saying he had been summoned by the grand jury and was prohibited from speaking about the case.)

In typical fashion, the four-unit flats on Nottingham soon saw tension.

The neighbor says she reported Herter for smoking in the nonsmoking building, and he grew angry. It turned pretty nasty. The woman eventually got a restraining order, including in her application an audio recording of Herter singing outside her door that he hoped she died of cancer. (She asked for her name not to be used, because she still fears Herter.)

Ugly as it got, something about Herter struck her as sad. “There was part of me that felt really bad for him,” she says. “He seemed lost to me.”

Sometimes, she would see him behind the building, dancing with his sword or just dancing alone.

“Almost like he was in a trance.

Like a trance — that’s what it looked like to me.”

The neighbor did not like Krechel, either. Of the three men, only Numero Tres seemed like a

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t was after fleeing his apartment’s maintenance man that Seth Herter pulled his victim’s SUV into the parking lot of the Colonial Inn, located in the tiny town of High Hill, Missouri, population 195.

Two motels sit along its entrance to Interstate 70, which is about 80 minutes west of St. Louis. The Colonial is the more beat up of the pair. The dominant sound is that of trucks roaring past less than 100 yards away. A rusty snack machine sits unplugged out front, and the office is protected by bulletproof glass.

The motel’s beleaguered manager, Yasir Imran, says Herter arrived in the late afternoon. He does not remember the date, but it was almost certainly May 3.

Imran says Herter seemed twitchy, agitated.

“You see people who are on meth?” the manager asks. “It was like that.”

Police say Herter was covered in blood, but Imran says he doesn’t remember that. He thinks he was wearing brown pants and a baseball cap.

Initially, Herter was $10 short of the $36 fee and tried to bargain the price down, pleading (falsely) that he had driven all night from Texas. Imran refused and says Herter left but returned about two hours later with the money.

He rented him Room 116.

That evening, he saw Herter pacing at the edge of the park-

ing lot, seemingly talking on the phone, before disappearing inside the room. The next morning, the young man came to the office and said the battery of the SUV was dead. He needed a jump. Imran said he would be out.

The police moved in just moments later. Imran remembers two patrol cars swooping into the lot, the officers bolting out and ordering Herter to the ground.

More police arrived. After a while, one of the officers told Imran that Herter was wanted for murder.

“I was shocked,” Imran says. “I thought he was on some drugs or something.”

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is son had been in jail a week before Greg Herter learned about the killing.

A family friend had come across a news story about the case, recognized the last name and forwarded it along.

A mix of horror and anger hit Greg Herter as he read the news story. “It could have been prevented and should have been prevented,” he says.

The father, who lives in Virginia and spends most of his days on the road as a long-haul trucker, says after his son left home they had limited contact. Until a recent visit at the St. Louis jail, he had not seen him in person since 2010. But they exchanged flurries of emails and sometimes calls. Often, Herter was angry and asking for money, says his father, who suspected he was on drugs.

On April 16, two weeks prior to the killing, the father dialed the number to the Behavioral Health Response crisis hotline in St. Louis.

He has had countless bizarre exchanges with his son over the years, but their most recent conversations had frightened him.

“It was getting dark,” he says. “It was getting darker.”

The younger Herter was convinced Jesus wanted him to start punishing people. Greg Herter says he tried to reason with his son. He talked about the mathematical improbability that of all the billions of people in the world, he alone was the chosen one. He tried explaining Jesus would never want him to hurt anyone. Nothing seemed to get through.

Greg Herter hoped Behavioral Health, a private nonprofit that provides services in St. Louis, would send counselors to speak with his son and have him involuntarily committed. The organization declined to confirm the call when contacted by the RFT, citing

privacy laws, but phone records provided by Greg Herter show his call on April 16 lasted 55 minutes.

He says the woman he spoke to asked if his son was suicidal or homicidal.

“I said, ‘No — he’s just homicidal.’ That’s exactly what I said,” Greg Herter says.

That alone should have set off a red alert, says the father. Instead, he claims he was told the best they could do was ask police for a welfare check — which sounded like a disaster in the making. The elder Herter told the counselor that his son had grown paranoid, recently cutting open his own ear in search of a chip implanted by the CIA. “Seth was not in a state of mind to see uniformed officers at his door,” Greg Herter says.

After the helpline phone call, Greg Herter was stymied. The news story he read about the killing was the realization of a nightmare.

Parts of it still don’t make sense to him. Police said his son had claimed to be on his way to Mexico, but he says the young man barely knew how to drive and wonders how he managed to make it beyond St. Louis County.

There was no way, he insists, his son was actually trying to flee across the border with no money or resources.

“As soon as I read the headline, I knew it was absolutely false,” he says.

Greg Herter suspects police wanted to make his son appear cogent. He has been trying to investigate what he can and pull together relevant legal documents, hoping to show otherwise. He has been able to get his son’s bank records, including a handwritten withdrawal for the last $92 in his account. The transaction was posted about 8:30 a.m. on May 4, the day of the arrest. Maybe it will turn out to be significant, maybe not.

Greg Herter wants the courts to see what he sees: a seriously ill young man, who could have been prevented from doing something terrible and who would not be a threat again if his mental illness was addressed.

“He took someone’s life,” the father says, “but his life is still worth saving.”

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n the justice center awaiting trial for murder, Seth Herter has a mostly nocturnal routine. He says he wakes about 2:30 p.m., giving him an hour before his unit has a two-hour recreation period. After that, he returns to his cell, lays down on his bunk and eventually drifts off about 5 a.m.

“I don’t talk to anyone,” he says.

He would like a judge to find

that mental illness rendered him not responsible for his actions. He thinks, with a little help, he could live a productive life.

“I’m not a dangerous person,” he says. “This was just a big mistake. I’ve never hurt anyone else.

I don’t want to hurt anyone.”

Herter’s criminal record includes at least seven arrests in Texas and Missouri. The charges vary, but there are patterns in the police reports: erratic behavior, suspected and sometimes confirmed drug abuse and chaotic clashes when cornered by arresting officers. He was arrested three times during one three-month stretch in Austin.

In a case from March 2013, a man who met Herter on a dating app and let him move in told Austin cops he had become afraid of his young lover’s unpredictable fits of rage. When officers arrived, Herter was at first calm but suddenly tried to bolt over the side of a second-story balcony. He was shocked twice with a Taser before officers dragged him to a patrol car, according to the incident report.

“This always happens with older guys,” Herter reportedly shouted as he was hauled away. “They give you a place to stay, and when you don’t give them enough dick, they get mad.”

None of Herter’s charges were major. Austin police charged him with resisting arrest, evading arrest and criminal mischief. His lone assault case is from a 2015 incident in the St. Louis suburb of Breckenridge Hills. Police say he smashed out the window of a methadone clinic and then kicked the police officer who tried to restrain him in a patrol car, according to court records.

Dr. Meredith Throop says it is extremely rare for someone with Herter’s diagnosis to become violent. In such cases, it is usually only one of many contributing factors and often not the driving one.

Throop is a psychiatrist and the medical director of Places for People, a St. Louis-based mentalhealth provider. She has not treated Herter but says the symptoms he described to the RFT are right in line with those of psychotic disorders. Even so, the vast majority of people dealing with even severe psychosis never hurt anyone.

In Herter’s case, he says he also had PTSD, which Throop says can make people hyper-vigilant. And he had a deep interest in weapons. He says he always thought an ability to use weapons was practical knowledge, so he set about training himself. On the day of the killing, Herter says, he believed he was under attack. He

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thought the people in the walls and furniture planned to kill him. Throop says those kind of delusions feel entirely real to the people experiencing them.

Herter claims the final trigger was McCarthy himself. He claims his former lover tried to sexually assault him, and that he defended himself with the sword. Whether McCarthy did in fact attack him is probably unknowable. It is not uncommon for people in the midst of psychosis to misunderstand the actions of others.

“When you misperceive someone’s actions, and you see it as a threat, you’re willing to do about anything, because you’re protecting yourself,” Throop says.

Combine delusions of schizoaffective disorder with hyper vigilance, a long history with weapons and the perception of a life-ordeath threat, and you begin to get a broader picture, Throop says. “It sounds almost like this was a perfect storm.”

Herter hopes he will be free again one day, but he is pessimistic. He says when he needed help in the past, it was nowhere to be found: “Everyone abandoned me. My family walked away. My friends walked away.” By the end, he lived alone, pinning mass times to his bulletin board and wearing a hairshirt around his apartment.

The legal battle will not be easy.

Herter will be evaluated to see if he is competent to help with his defense, and also to try to determine his mental state at the time of the crime. To be considered not guilty for reasons of mental disease or defect, he would have to prove he did not know what he was doing was wrong, which will Continued on pg 18

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depend on a psychiatric examination and expert testimony, says Susan McGraugh, director of Saint Louis University’s legal clinic. It is very difficult to earn acquittal.

“Even if every psychiatrist who sees him says he had a mental illness, a severe mental illness, that’s not enough to win at trial,” McGraugh says.

Prosecutors will likely point out every step he took after the killing — blocking the maintenance man’s entry, leaving town — and suggest they show attempts to conceal the crime or get away, which would mean he knew the killing was wrong. Even if he never actually planned to go to Mexico, they will still be able to show he stole McCarthy’s SUV and drove off. “That’s how everyone loses,” says McGraugh, who has defended mentally ill clients throughout her career.

Herter, though, says he had no plan when he got in the SUV: “I was still freaking out.” He holds out some hope that a judge will understand, but not much. “I think about, I’m going to lose my life over this. One person has already lost their life over this. Do two peo-

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He thinks about this as he lays in his cell, and he thinks about Tim. He still calls him Tim, because that’s the name he knew. “I loved him.”

And yet, he wonders if he ever really knew him. He thought “Tim” was in his 30s. He is fairly certain Tim worked as a truck driver for a small St. Charles-based company called M Aubuchon Hauling. He would call sometimes from the job, and Herter could hear background noise as if he was in the cab of a truck. But the rest is hazy.

They rarely went out anywhere or hung out with anyone other than Krechel. “I think he was friends with me because he expected sex,” Herter posits.

The only thing Tim ever really told him about his background was a story about being adopted by a family of gospel-singing evangelists who took him into their band and family only to cut ties later in life when they discovered he was gay and had been contacting men online.

Herter accepted the story at the time, but as he tells it now, he realizes how far-fetched it seems.

“I’m a gullible person,” he says.

“I believe what I’m told so much, a voice told me to kill someone and I did it.”

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hristopher McCarthy is a puzzle.

No obituary appeared in the local papers after his death, and a search of public records reveals little. A medical examiner’s spokeswoman confirms someone has claimed his body from the morgue, but she declines to say who. Contacted by the RFT, M Aubuchon Hauling makes it clear they want absolute-

ly nothing to do with the story.

“Please do not contact us,” says the emailed reply to a reporter’s calls and messages. “Where [sic] not interested.”

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performed with a family of gospel singers.

“He was funny,” says the man, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “Obviously, I liked him.

Otherwise, I wouldn’t have tried to help him.”

The only problem with McCarthy, says the man, was that he lied compulsively. It was never clear why. He was not a thief, and he did not seem to be trying to make himself look better. “He has nothing to cover up. He was not into drugs. He would lie about the stupidest things.” The man suspects some of his stories stemmed from his role in the gospel group, whose members would not have accepted his sexuality. “They’re crazy. So maybe that’s why he was making up names.”

He believes McCarthy’s real first name is Rich, which he says he confirmed by looking at his driver’s license.

Lisa Tegart, 41, also knew McCarthy as Rich — Rich Wilson, then Rich McCarthy and later Rich McCarthy Wilson. He was part of a Ballwin-based gospel group called the Wilsons. The story she heard as a kid was that the Wilson family had spotted him walking along the road and took him in.

“He could sing,” she says. “He played bass, so they stuck with him.”

Her family had its own Southern gospel band, the Prices, out of Rolla. The two groups were close, and Tegart’s mother was later hired by the Wilsons as a singer. She remembers touring together on weekends, often not returning home until 3 or 4 a.m. “Many nights we slept on a bus. There were nights we slept at their house.”

McCarthy was in his twenties then and seemed even younger.

“He was always talking to people, laughing, telling jokes at the table.”

The Wilson parents eventually retired, but the band regrouped under their son as Steve Wilson and the Wilsons, a trio that featured McCarthy. He appears on multiple album covers, and his photo remains on the homepage of the group’s website.

Tegart says she had lost touch with McCarthy in recent years.

She heard he had been fired from the band but never got the full story of why — something to do with his “lifestyle” and playing music in bars, which wouldn’t be allowed. (The Wilsons did not respond to phone messages, an email and a letter from the RFT.) “I was under the impression that it was a pretty rough fallout with the family,” Tegart says.

Only later, through a friend whose brother had worked with McCarthy, did she hear about his murder. Even then, it was difficult to find information, in part because the papers said his name was Christopher and she had always known him as Rich. She does not know what to make of all the names or how he came to be killed in the grimy bathroom of a delusional twentysomething.

“I really had been curious about where his life had gone for this to happen,” she says. “The Rich I knew was the least likely to be killed by someone with a samurai sword.”

Whatever he called himself, Tegart says McCarthy was her friend. She wishes she knew if he had a funeral service or where he was buried.

“He had a rough, complicated life,” she concludes. “He really did, but he was so fun. I always said he was a big kid.” n

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THURSDAY 07/26 The Realistic Joneses John and Pony Jones have moved to the suburbs, which is where they meet Bob and Jennifer Jones.

Bob and Jennifer are a little bit older, and perhaps that’s what makes the quartet’s conversations so rife with awkward pauses and unexpected pronouncements. Or maybe it’s the unnamed disease Bob has contracted that tinges their conversations with darkness. The threat of death has a way of making even the most pleasant evening morbid. Will Eno’s play The Realistic Joneses is a play about everyday life — and the grim ending we must all face but never discuss. Rebels and Misfits Productions present The Realistic Joneses at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and at 3 p.m. Sunday (July 25 to August 12) at the Jewish Community Center’s

Wool Studio Theatre (2 Millstone Campus Drive; www.rebelsandmisfitsproductions.com). Tickets are $40 to $45.

FRIDAY 07/27 Tanya Solomon Magicians — no, hear us out — magicians don’t get enough respect. They practice an old craft that relies on physical skills and deception to create a sense of wonder, even though many people are quick to dismiss it as “kid’s stuff.” Great magicians make you question your own eyes, and when they’re really good, even doubt your own sanity. Tanya Solomon is one of the few women in the field, and she blends the astonishing and the absurd to great effect. She grabs living fish from the ether, changes her outfits in two blinks of your eyes and does things with creamed corn that defy belief. Solomon brings her show Truth Assassin to the Mono-

cle (4510 Manchester Road; www. themonoclestl.com) at 8 p.m. Friday, July 27. Tickets are $10 to $15.

Gypsy Rose Horvik only wants what’s best for her daughters, and in her mind that means toiling on stage in broken-down theaters until they become stars. June and her little sister Louise grow up dreaming of a normal life, but Rose is undeterred by their dreams or the disinterest of theater managers and audiences across the country.

Is Rose a selfish monster living vicariously through her kids, or is she a tragic figure who sacrifices her own happiness and future to get her kids to the top? That’s the question at the heart of the musical Gypsy, which is frequently called the “greatest musical of all time.” The Muny presents Gypsy at 8:15 p.m. Friday through Thursday (July 27 to August 2) at the Muny in Forest Park (www.muny. org). Tickets are $15 to $100.

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Daniel Way has been to a lot of conventions. The comic-book writer (Wolverine: Origins, cult favorite Starr the Slayer and a long run on Deadpool) has attended every kind of comic-book convention, from small local shows to the granddaddy of them all, San Diego Comic Con. Along the way, he saw some things he didn’t like: the glut of vendors selling the exact same mass-produced items at pretty much the same prices, the way people who actually handmade limited edition comics or cosplay gear were always shunted into a remote corner and oftenexorbitant entry fees that cut into attendees’ spending budget. Way believed there was room for a different kind of convention, and so with fiancée Kim Matsuzaki and friend Jenny Valle created the GeekCraft Expo (cue lightning crash and Kirby crackle).

The expo is a traveling show of handmade goods that display a fascination with pop culture. You may encounter crocheted Star Wars characters in miniature, a

robot-shaped lamp made of pipe fittings or science-fiction-themed baby gear, all made by hand.

“The idea is that I wanted each individual show to be a focal point that complements the local scene,” Way explains. “The attendees buy from local businesses. That’s an important part of it.”

The first GeekCraft Expo took place in Madison, Wisconsin, three years ago. Way and Matsuzaki live in North Carolina, so from the very beginning the show was on the road. Currently, shows are planned for Cincinnati, Boise and Richmond, Virginia, as well more populous regions such as San Diego and Boston, but Way remains committed to hitting smaller, less obvious cities.

“I’m from a small town in Michigan,” Way says. “Growing up there was nothing for me, and that’s why I left. When you go to a small town, they’re excited to see you. They appreciate what we’re doing, and they let us know.”

The other atypical feature of GeekCraft Expo is that the organizers believe in keeping ticket prices as low as possible. In fact, admission is free.

“After going to so many conventions where tickets are $40 or $60, I knew we had to keep the barrier low,” Way says. “We charge the exhibitors for space, but we don’t want to put any barriers on anyone getting in.”

The result is a show that’s more like a community gathering.

“It’s genuinely fun,” Way promises. “A bunch of geeks get together and have a great time. You may be way into Doctor Who and they may be way into Gundam, but you understand each other.”

Way is convinced that the appreciation and respect paid to vendors powers the GeekCraft Expo. “One-hundred percent of our attendance is there for them,” he marvels. “We’ve seen this work all over the country. The geek community shows up, the DIY people show up and the ‘support local business crowd’ shows up.

“We even get cosplayers!” Way crows. “We had a full-on Dalek roll through the door in Seattle.

It must have been seven feet tall.

If you made something cool and want to show it off, these people will appreciate that.”

WEEK OF JULY 26–AUGUST 1 GeekCraft Expo St. Louis takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Grant Gym, inside the Webster University Center (175 Edgar Road, Webster Groves; www.geekcraftexpo.com). Admission is free.

Nabucco

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The Babylonians are marching to destroy the Jews, but Zaccaria, high priest of the Jews, believes his people will be saved by God’s favor. Besides, they have Fenena as a hostage, and King Nabucco isn’t going to risk losing his favorite daughter. Meanwhile, in the palace, Nabucco’s lesser daughter Abigaille is plotting to usurp her father’s throne while he’s away waging war. Yet even as Babylonia’s royal family fights against itself, the Jews reap the rewards of faith as surprise conversions and a sudden bout of madness visited upon Nabucco aids their cause.

Union Avenue Opera continues its season with Giuseppe Verdi’s epic opera Nabucco, presented in the original Italian with English supertitles. Performances are at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday (July 27 to August 4) at the Union Avenue Christian Church (733 North Union Boulevard; www. unionavenueopera.org). Tickets are $30 to $55.

MONDAY 07/30 Christmas in July

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There hasn’t been a whole lot for Cardinals fans to celebrate this year, but there’s always hope for a Christmas miracle. The Monday, July 30, game against the Colorado Rockies features a “Christmas in July” promotion, which includes costumed Christmas characters mingling with fans before the game and a special Santa Fredbird bobblehead for those who buy the special promotions ticket ($20.90 to $144.90). What if Santa Fredbird becomes this year’s Rally Squirrel and sparks a second-half resurgence? A Rally Fredbird makes way more sense as a lucky charm than a tree rat.

The game starts at 7:10 p.m., and non-promotions tickets are $10.90 to $234.90.

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Marsha Thompson plays Abigaille in Nabucco. | JOHN LAMB

WEDNESDAY 08/01 Caddyshack Golf is one of life’s small mysteries. The game is perceived to be both exclusionary and elitist, yet thousands of normal people love it. It’s this conundrum that fuels the laughs in the classic comedy Caddyshack. Danny Noonan (Michael O’Keefe) is a poor kid from a big family who works as a caddy at a ritzy private golf club. He’s angling for the club’s scholarship for exceptional caddies, but his grades aren’t that great. So he takes the other route to success, schmoozing with club bigwig Judge Smails (Ted Knight) while taking life advice from noted playboy/philosopher Ty Webb (Chevy Chase). The result is one of the most quotable films of all time. The Strange Brew film series shows Caddyshack at 8 p.m.

Wednesday, August 1, at Urban Chestnut’s Grove Brewery & Bierhall (4465 Manchester Avenue; www.webster.edu/film-series).

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Onward and Upward After an uneven start, the LaBute Fest returns to form in its second half Written by

PAUL FRISWOLD LaBute New Theater Festival Presented by St. Louis Actors’ Studio through July 29 at the Gaslight Theater (358 North Boyle Avenue; www.stlas.org). Tickets are $30 to $35.

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s the second half of the LaBute New Theater Festival stronger than the first, or does it just feel that way because it’s the finale?

The question probably doesn’t have a definitive answer; art is subjective. But subjectively speaking, the four plays now on stage at St. Louis Actors’ Studio are indeed more polished and rewarding than those in the festival’s first half. This time, all four shorts feel like finished works. They are polished, professional and, most important, they each evoke an emotional response. That’s why we go to the theater, and that’s why the LaBute Fest matters.

Neil LaBute’s “The Fourth Reich” again opens the show, with Eric Dean White’s pleasant man arguing for the critical reassessment of Adolf Hitler’s life and works. Earlier White appeared to stress his rationality with a calmness that slowly grows more manic. Now he comes across as more antagonistic, as if he’s daring the audience to argue that Hitler is indeed a bad man. This may be a false perception because I knew where the play ends up, but I found it more difficult to remain quiet when he paused for rebuttals.

Michael Long’s “The Gettier Problem” is a brief excursion into the mind of a woman who is either a scientist dangerously committed to her research or mentally ill — or both. Colleen Backer brings an airy charm to the character, who has checked herself into a mental hospital in order to

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A counselor (Erin Brewer) helps Miss Chap (Carly Rosenbaum) work through a bad day at elementary school in “The Process.” | JUSTIN FOIZEY

The script takes several twists, and we’re left with an overriding uncertainty about what is true in this clean, well-lit hospital room. undergo brain surgery for the unnamed syndrome that causes her severe head jerking. She confides to her favorite orderly (Spencer Sickmann) that she’s faking it all to further her research into the provenance of the human soul.

Long’s script takes several twists, and we’re left with an overriding uncertainty about what is true in this clean, well-lit hospital room.

That uncertainty mirrors the protagonist’s own big question: Is the totality of a person defined and governed by their brain, or do we have a soul that determines who we are and the choices we make?

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“The Process,” by Peter McDonough, is a harrowing mystery.

Primary school teacher Miss Chap (Carly Rosenbaum) discusses the stressful run-up to her wedding with a counselor (Erin Brewer).

It becomes clear that Miss Chap is avoiding talking about a painful incident that occurred in her classroom; through split-screen and flashback, we see what unfolded on that fateful day.

McDonough creates a tension that gives way to horror, realized with great skill by Rosenbaum.

The incident that led to the teacher’s blocked memories becomes a nightmare that we all live through again with her; it’s an emotionally draining, gutting experience. And while McDonough inserts a political speech that feels jarring and misplaced, it’s not enough to derail the play. It’s a vivid, heartbreaking show, one of the most memorable productions in LaBute Festival history. The audience member who gasped “oh, shit” in the silence after the end spoke for many.

The final play, Sean Abley’s “Unabridged,” is a far more lighthearted matter. Mr. Barker (Zachary Allen Farmer) runs a ruined shop with nothing on the shelves.

His best customer (Spencer Sickmann) has the appearance and

mannerisms of a junkie, which he is. Mr. Barker sells words out of his dictionary to a clientele with limited vocabulary. Just how limited becomes clear when Eric Dean White’s well-heeled man comes in looking to buy something special for his wedding anniversary, which is a word he doesn’t know.

While the customers talk around and elide the words they’re looking for, Mr. Barker has a prodigious vocabulary and is unaffected by the words he sells. White, however, begins sniffing loudly, wipes his nose frequently and becomes jumpy as he reads aloud the grocery list he’s purchased. It’s a surreal play, but also familiar. Who among us has not experienced a horripilation upon discovering a truly excellent word — or in this instance, an excellent play about the strange effects language has upon us?

Despite the inherent humor, the play depicts a dark place to live. In the world of “Unabridged,” men will kill for a dictionary and the good words are worth any price.

Still, it’s nice to see someone trying to grow their vocabulary. The visual of Sickmann blissfully reading from a dictionary and writhing in euphoria is enough to move even the stoic Mr. Barker. n

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Rolling Right Along Gus Van Sant takes a light approach to the dark story of John Callahan’s life and art Written by

ROBERT HUNT Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot Directed by Gus Van Sant. Written by John Callahan, Gus Van Sant, Jack Gibson and William Andrew Eastman. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara and Beth Ditto.

Opens Friday, July 27, at the Hi-Pointe Theatre and Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema.

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or some independent filmmakers, individual style is no more than the desire to create a kind of brand recognition, to be described in trailers as “visionary” while working out licensing deals or angling for a cushy job making American Express commercials. Fortunately, a few (Soderbergh, Jarmusch, Linklater) can’t be pinned down so easily, a group whose wider outlook allows them to retain control over their films even as they jump from Oscar-bait to art films, from genre films to esoterica.

With a body of work that ranges from conventional but admirable (Good Will Hunting, Milk) to determinedly avant-garde (Gerry, Elephant), Gus Van Sant is possibly the least predictable within this circle of directors. His films are uneven, inconsistent, sometimes even questionable (the 1998 shotfor-shot remake of Psycho). Still, they’re clearly the product of considerable thought.

Van Sant’s latest film, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot, is a loosely constructed portrait of the late cartoonist John Callahan. Though sometimes told in broad satirical gestures, Van Sant takes a light, humanist approach to a story that could easily have turned melodramatic. The Portland-based Callahan, whose work appeared in dozens of publications (including the RFT), turned to cartooning accidentally — in

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John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix) talks with AA sponsor Donnie (Jonah Hill). | SCOTT PATRICK GREEN, COURTESY OF AMAZON STUDIOS the most literal way.

Callahan became a quadriplegic at age 21 and was a recovering alcoholic. Following in the tradition of other “sick” cartoonists like Gahan Wilson and Charles Rodrigues, Callahan produced crudely drawn sketches that often dealt with physical disability, substance abuse and psychological disorders and were often (predictably) greeted with reams of hate mail. He recognized that his cartooning was a way of addressing his personal struggles with disability, addiction and abandonment and reportedly relished the complaints.

Based on Callahan’s 1989 autobiography, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot is perhaps best defined by what it doesn’t do. It’s not a sentimental story of artistic triumph, although his success as a cartoonist is a significant part of the story. It’s not a recovery drama in the tradition of Clean and Sober or 28 Days, although the twelve steps are shown in detail.

The film avoids presenting Callahan as either a pathos-driven saint or the life of the party. It’s lightspirited without being a comedy and sober without being tragic.

Avoiding the obvious narrative, Van Sant has assembled a rambling, suitably shapeless portrait, perhaps slightly less provocative

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than its subject’s drawings, but with a warm and sometimes subtle sense of humor, pushed along by a jazzier-than-usual Danny Elfman score.

While the film presents the twelve steps of recovery at length, Callahan himself seems to follow

The film is perhaps best defined by what it doesn’t do.

It’s light-spirited without being a comedy and sober without being tragic. them with a bemused sense of puzzlement. His AA meetings — also attended by Beth Ditto and Udo Kier — sometimes dissolve into a catty grown-up version of The Breakfast Club. The group’s leader, played by Jonah Hill, is a spacey New Age rich kid, given to striking Christ-like poses. One

minute he’s reciting platitudes from the Big Book; the next he’s lounging listlessly in his mansion as if bored by Callahan’s questions or, in one private moment, frantically boogieing to “Shake Your Groove Thing.” Hill gives an inspired but genuinely bizarre performance, a free-spirited and narcissistic Yoda in Callahan’s quest for sobriety.

Van Sant treats Callahan’s story as a fragmented series of events, a jigsaw puzzle of highs and lows, leaving it to Joaquin Phoenix to hold them and the film together.

A former child actor, Phoenix’s earliest adult performances seem strained and methodical, yet he’s since evolved into a strangely selfless actor. He’s reclusive, deliberately holding back on any kind of charisma. As in the recent You Were Never Really Here, he keeps himself bundled so tightly that he eliminates any room for the viewer to identify with him.

In that film, Phoenix’s reserve gave a sense of the pain his character was trying to repress. As Callahan, Phoenix’s repression works differently. He’s oddly likable even though he doesn’t make any effort to be loved. As he works through the intensive self-reflection of recovery, he doesn’t talk much about the process, but you can see the struggle on his face. n

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1. THERE’S A GOOD CHANCE THEY WILL RUN OUT We expect that the restaurants will be extremely busy. So if a place runs out toward the end of a shift, handle it like an adult; go back earlier the next day, order your burger, and thank them for working really hard.

Please be nice to our restaurants.

2. THERE WILL LIKELY BE WAITS People have been talking about Burger Week 2018 for months.

Don’t be surprised if restaurants have waits.

In fact, be surprised if they don’t.

3. YOU WILL TIP LIKE A PRO $6 brings out the cheap in all of us, but really, you’re most likely receiving a $10+burger. Many restaurants go above and beyond for Burger Week, so please tip at least 20%. Those who are serving you are working harder this week than any other full week in the year. Kind words can go a long way —these folks are our friends and neighbors.

4. YOU REALLY SHOULD BUY A DRINK AND/OR OTHER FOODS Purchase of sides and extras are not a requirement, but we think it says a lot to those working hard to bring you extraordinary experience. Grab some fries, a Bud Select, a cocktail and say thanks!

5. CHECK TWITTER, FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM Restaurants will be encouraged to post their waits and remaining burgers for the day on their social platforms. Also don’t forget to share and tag your photos with #STLBurgerWeek.

6. DINE-IN Just a final note that many restaurants are dine-in only. Make sure to double check the Official Burger Week Passport to confirm which locations offer carry-out and which locations are dine-in only.

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FLANNERY’S 8OZ. BURGER MELT 11 AM - 10 PM DAILY! 1320 WASHINGTON AVE

Grass-Fed Breakfast Burger 8 oz. midwestern grass-fed beef patty topped with Canadian bacon, American cheese and a fried egg. With tater tots

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Grass-Fed Western Burger 8 oz. midwestern grass-fed beef patty topped with an onion ring, bacon, and soft spread cheddar cheese. Served with Buffalo fries and bbq sauce

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THE BIG MAMAJAMA Juicy Half Pound Burger Smothered In BBQ Sauce topped with Cheddar Cheese and Bacon

BIG DADDY'S FRISCO MELT American & Swiss Cheese Melted on top of our Juicy Half Pound Burger Smothered in 1000 Island Dressing on Toasted Sourdough Bread

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OFFICIAL BURGER ATOMIC COWBOY

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Atomic Burger Black Angus beef patty topped with pepper jack, cowboy sauce, lettuce, tomato and onion.

Smashed Burger Patty Smoked pork, crispy cider, onion straws and tangy bbq sauce.

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BAR LOUIE barlouie.com

CAFE PIAZZA cafepiazza.com

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Spiked Bulleit® Bourbon Burger Covered in our spiked house-made sauce with Bulleit® Bourbon, topped with cheddar, cream cheese, applewood smoked bacon, crispy onion strings. (must be 21, sorry kiddos!)

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2 CHOICES! Grass-Fed Western Burger 8 oz.

Midwestern grass-fed patty topped with an onion ring, bacon and soft-spread cheddar cheese.

Served with Buffalo fries and BBQ sauce.

Grass-Fed Breakfast Burger 8 oz. Midwestern grass-fed beef patty topped with Canadian bacon, American cheese and a fried egg with tater tots.

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CAPITALIST PIG

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2 CHOICES! The Big Mamajama Juicy 1/2 lb. pound burger smothered in BBQ sauce topped with cheddar cheese and bacon.

Big Daddy’s Frisco Melt American & swiss cheese melted on top of our juicy 1/2 lb. pound burger smothered in 1000 Island dressing on toasted sourdough bread.

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Cheeseburger Pizza Hamburger meat, red sauce, cheese blend.

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Griddle Burger White cheddar cheese, bacon, fried bread and butter onions, and burger sauce on potato bun.

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Half Pound All Beef Burger Choice of cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, and mushrooms.

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Jammin’ Burger This smoked burger is ground in house using whole brisket. It’s topped with cheddar cheese, a house-made tomato bacon jam and lettuce. Served between a Fazio bun.

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Carnivore Steakhouse Burger Flame-grilled 1/3lb. ground steak burger patty topped with 2 crispy strips of prosciutto, melted provel cheese, and fresh mushrooms in the Carnivore Modiga, a white wine, lemon butter sauce, on a toasted Vitale Bakery bun.

Lamb Burger 7oz. ground lamb seasoned with 12 different herbs and spices on a herb encrusted bun with lettuce, onions, tomatoes, kosher pickles and cheese.

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BLT Burger Fresh ground beef, single patty, 4 slices of bacon, lettuce, tomato and house made garlic mayo on a Fazio bun.

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FERMENTATION STATION AT THE SAINT LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER Grilled Burger Crispy pancetta, sweet and savory peach jam and black mustard Gouda.

Served on a Kaiser roll.

Beef Street Burger Ground beef, corner sweet bun, American cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickles, candied bacon, caramelized onion, mayo, ketchup, mustard.

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2 CHOICES ! Concord Burger 6 oz. Our best seller with bacon, onion straws and cheddar cheese sauce. Served with seasoned fries.

Jim White Burger 6 oz. burger with sautéed mushroom, bacon and Swiss cheese. Served with seasoned fries.

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EVANGELINE’S Black Strap Molasses Bacon Beignet Burger Black Angus Beef between two Glazed Beignets with Black Strap Molasses Bacon, Tomato, Lettuce.

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Duke’s Bacon Cheddar Smash Burger It’s a classic. We start with 2 patties of premium blend ground beef locally sourced from Kern Meat Co. and smash ‘em on the grill with a bit of seasoning and 2 slices of cheddar and top it with our applewood smoked bacon. Served with lettuce, tomato, sliced dill and red onion.

Flannery’s Melt 8oz. burger served with homemade 1000 island dressing, American and provel cheese on toasted sourdough bread.

FRIDA’S

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2 CHOICES ! Signature Frida Burger Awardwinning burger with tahini-chipotle slaw & tomato on a local bun.

Black Bean Burger Loaded with red pepper, organic spinach, jalapeños, red onion, cheddar cheese & avocado on a local bun.

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The PBB (Pork-Belly Burger) A thick slab of smoked pork belly garnished with pickled carrots and jalapeño jam on a toasted brioche bun.

2 CHOICES ! The Homer 1/2lb. burger with an over easy egg, pulled pork, ham, bacon, Swiss and cheddar on an apple fritter.

Gouda Bacon Burger 1/2lb. burger with smoked gouda, over easy egg, and bacon smothered in BBQ Sauce.

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(2 locations) Hot & Spicy Burger Our thick premium ground beef burger, topped with a fried egg, our delicious hand-breaded and deep-fried fresh jalapenos, melted pepper jack cheese and our house-made chipotle aïoli.

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Cookie Burger Sugar Cookie buns with chocolate cookie dough burger, icing tomato, icing mustard and dyed green shredded coconut then to top it off we lightly brush the top with caramel sauce and add sesame seeds for effect.

The Corporate Clown Two house blend burger patties, melted Colby jack, chopped onions, house pickles, shredded lettuce and special sauce on a sesame seed bun.

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Seamus Blue Cheese Bacon Burger A 10oz. angus burger topped with blue cheese crumbles and mouthwatering bacon! All served on a toasted bakery bun! Slainte!

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Bo Burger 1/2lb. handmade choice chopped sirloin, charbroiled and served on a Kaiser Roll.

Served with lettuce, tomato, pickle and onion on request. Options to add cheese, grilled onions, mushrooms or bacon!!!

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Princess Mary Burger Cheddar & Jack cheese, caramelized onions, bacon, lettuce & Mary’s sauce.

Milo’s 1/2 # 1/2lb. burger with your choice of cheese, lettuce, pickle, onion, tomato.

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Nik Nak Patty Mac Give the Burg a Bun Single cheeseburger, mac & cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickle, topped off with a Sugarfire Smokehouse Rib Bone. The most EPIC $6 Burger for a week.

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Cajun Gorgonzola Burger A 1/2lb. blend of Black Angus beef & andouille sausage rolled in cajun seasoning, grilled & topped with gorgonzola cheese, caramelized onions & cajun mayo.

The Big AL 8oz. Steakburger Cooked to perfection, stacked high with our house smoked pulled pork, topped with pepper jack cheese, and covered in sweet and tangy BBQ sauce. Just like the Ol’ Man would want it.

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O’Connell’s Famous Burger 1/2lb. burger.

1/2 LB Burger Served with beer cheese and bacon onion jam on a toasted Brioche bun.

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The Parlay Burger 1/2lb. certified angus beef, with your choice of cheese and an egg cooked to your liking on top.

HOTSHOTS SPORTS BAR PEACOCK AND GRILL (10 locations) hotshotsnet.com LOOP DINER All American Burger A 1/3lb. all natural burger topped with select toppings of your choice served with an order of Hotshots French fries or chips.

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Chorizo Burger Topped with smoked gouda cheese, guacamole, & grilled pineapple on a pretzel bun.

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Loop Trolley Burger Two fresh ground beef patties topped with our homemade BBQ sauce, cheddar cheese, bacon and an onion ring.

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Big Kahuna Burger A big 12oz. angus burger starring our fresh house-made mango salsa (made daily from fresh mango, jalapenos, cilantro and citrus, all from Soulard Market) and with a supporting cast of melted pepper jack cheese and applewood smoked bacon.

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Stadium Burger Pork and beef blended patty with steak seasoning, caramelized smoked onions, cheddar cheese, whole grain mustard, pickles, served on a pretzel bun.

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CHERYL BAEHR DD Mau 11982 Dorsett Road, Maryland Heights; 314942-2300; Mon.-Fri. 10:30 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sat. 11:30 a.m.-7 p.m. (Closed Sundays.)

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ulie Truong may have been destined for the restaurant business, but it was a destiny she refused to accept, at least for the first few decades of her life. It wasn’t that she disliked cooking. Quite the opposite. Truong was always in the kitchen,

helping out as her family prepared traditional Vietnamese dishes for everything from casual weeknight dinners to extravagant feasts.

However, as the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants who spent their days and nights toiling in their north St. Louis restaurant, Vinh Chop Suey, Truong had a front-row seat to the backbreaking reality of restaurant work. Having no romantic illusions about the industry, she swore even at an early age that she would forge a different path.

That path led her to the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles, where she learned about apparel, merchandising and business. Still, no matter how busy Truong’s studies kept her, her love of food stayed with her, and she would regularly find herself in the kitchen, cooking for friends or alone just to decompress.

Her reputation for being a good cook followed her when she re-

turned home and enrolled at Mizzou. It even trailed her when she landed her dream job, working for Levi’s in Chicago, though this time, things were different. Rather than it being others who recognized Truong’s culinary calling, in Chicago she finally began to see it in herself. By day, she worked her high-profile fashion gig; by night, she explored the city through its food scene. Whether she was cooking or going out to eat, Truong dreamed of what a restaurant of her own would look like, keeping a journal full of ideas about food, service and business. Then and there, the seeds of DD Mau began to germinate.

Truong may have been surprised by her decision last year to return to St. Louis and open a restaurant, but her friends and family were not. By then, her vision was clear: She would open a fast-casual Vietnamese restaurant in the customizable style of Chipotle or Mod Pizza. She’d noticed

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a gap in the market for a modern take on southeast Asian cuisine; the format appealed to both her passion for her culinary heritage and her business acumen.

Truong chose to open DD Mau, whose name roughly translates to “hurry up” or “let’s go,” in Maryland Heights, an area she selected for its near-capacity business occupancy and dearth of food options.

The restaurant sits off Dorsett Road in a strip mall that used to house the American-style Chinese restaurant the Rice House.

Truong has observed many longtime customers’ shock at the space’s transformation from Chinese-inspired red-and-black décor to a sleek and modern bright white room. Gone are the mirrors and conference-room art, replaced with framed whimsical food-pun cartoons done by an artist friend. There is a bar-like counter at the front of the restaurant, but do not be deceived: This

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is a counter-service spot with no liquor. You may still be tempted to linger, though; what’s coming out of Truong’s kitchen is intoxicating in its own right.

Indeed, if guests are surprised by the aesthetic transformation, they should be positively gob-smacked by the change in what’s coming out of the kitchen. Truong may be operating under the fast-casual model, but her cooking takes no shortcuts. Following the traditional techniques she grew up learning how to execute, Truong is serving food of shocking quality for such a casual model. It feels both innovative and fiercely authentic, customizable yet appealing to fans of traditional Vietnamese food. For instance, you can get a vermicelli bowl with such traditional accoutrements as crushed peanuts, cilantro and pickled vegetables, but it can be tossed with a dressing, such as the funky “Vietnamese Vinaigrette,” which infuses the bowl with depth from fish sauce, sugar, vinegar and chiles. All bowls come with your choice of protein; in this case, I opted for tofu and was impressed by its crisp exterior, which yielded to a creamy inside that soaked up every bit of flavor from the vinaigrette and pickled veggies.

Other than swapping rice for noodles, DD Mau’s rice bowl is nearly identical to the vermicelli version, with the addition of an over-easy egg whose yolk breaks open and runs over the dish like a rich dressing. Here, thinly sliced grilled steak proved to be an excellent option. Juicy and flavored with black pepper and char, the meat comes off the grill just a second prior to being placed atop the noodle bowl — quite a departure from the meat-filled steam tables so often found in fast-casual restaurants. It may take a touch longer than plopping pre-made ingredients onto a plate, but the quality is worth that extra three minutes.

In the spirit of the space’s former tenant, Truong also serves a fried rice bowl that ticks off everything you want in Americanized Chinese food: salt, the delightful sweetness of translucent white onions and tender darkmeat chicken. This well-executed version shows why the dish is so ubiquitous.

DD Mau’s bánh mì is a solid take on the classic sandwich. A light and crusty baguette is layered with succulent marinated sliced pork, mayonnaise, cilantro, jalapeño, cucumber, pickled carrots

and cabbage. Missing is the traditional pâté; without it, the sandwich seemed designed to appeal to a less-adventurous audience. It keeps with the theme of what Truong is trying to do, though I myself would’ve preferred its addition.

When DD Mau first opened, Truong did not have pho on the menu, but popular demand prompted her to add it. Thank goodness she listened to the people, because the combination version is one of the restaurant’s best dishes.

The anise-scented broth is slightly sweet and decidedly more rich than ultra-traditional versions. If you’re approaching as a purist, you’ll see it as a fault. If you are enjoying a meal with your mouth instead of your head, you’ll revel in the luxuriously round mouthfeel and small slick of beef fat that floats to the top. Meatballs and rare beef float in the broth, but it’s the brisket joining them that makes the dish. The fork-tender meat is smoked, providing a deep, earthy flavor that is balanced out by accoutrements like lime and jalapeño. It’s like eating pho in the middle of a Texas smokehouse.

Truong’s knack for soups is also apparent in a vegetarian spicylemongrass version. The chile heat sneaks up on you, creeping up and warming the back of the throat. Lemongrass is apparent, but not so much that it overpowers — it’s a delicate dance of floral perfume and heat that soaks into the accompanying silken tofu. Rice noodles, bean sprouts, mushrooms and fresh herbs bob in the addictive broth. This is an off-menu special, so if you see it, make sure you seize the opportunity.

DD Mau offers several appetizers, including Vietnamese spring rolls stuffed with shrimp that is so fresh from the grill you can feel it steaming through the translucent rice paper wrapper. Bao sliders are a fun take on the trendy buns.

Stuffed with pork they’re good; filled with crispy fried basa, a fish similar to catfish, they are positively addictive.

One bite of that catfish — heck, one bite of anything at DD Mau — makes it clear that Truong was destined to be in the restaurant business. Her family knew it, her friends knew it and now, after a lifetime of thinking otherwise, she finally knows it. It may not be the path she thought she would take, but clearly, it was one she was meant to forge — and one we are lucky to walk with her.

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His Soccer Dreams Ended in Fine Dining Written by

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ndrew Enrique Cisneros was living the dream, playing soccer straight out of college for the St. Louis Lions, a Premier Development League team.

He thought he was destined to be a professional footballer and even connected with Peruvian soccer officials to explore getting a spot on their national team.

Then a major setback dashed those dreams and set him on an entirely different course.

“I got an ankle injury that the trainer at the [soccer] club said would take six to eight months to heal,” Cisneros recalls. “It wasn’t broken, but it was long term, and I felt like I couldn’t go back. It was very emotional at that time. I had to give up the dream.”

Now that Cisneros is chef de cuisine at Mike Randolph’s acclaimed tasting-menu restaurant Privado (6665 Delmar Boulevard, University City; 314-899-9221), it’s hard to imagine that Cisneros dreamed of anything but being in the kitchen. However, when his hopes of playing professional soccer were dashed, he looked to his other love, cooking, as a way to get through. It’s a passion that has been with him for as long as soccer, if not longer.

“I was really lucky to grow up around great food and cooks,” Cisneros recalls. “My mother and grandmother are from a little province outside of Lima, Peru — they’re the country people who know how to cook better than the city people. I grew up eating their Peruvian food every day, and it triggered my love of food.”

Cisneros channeled that love of food at his first job, working the front of the house at a restaurant

Andrew Enrique Cisneros’ competitive streak keeps him seeking out new challenges in the kitchen. | MONICA MILEUR in his hometown of St. Charles as a way to make some money and keep himself out of trouble. A selfdescribed “bad apple,” he didn’t like school and even considered dropping out before high school graduation. However, a counselor saw his budding passion for cooking and encouraged him to stay in school in order to leave open the option of culinary school. Though his intention was to play soccer, he agreed to stick it out and, after his injury, ended up in culinary school after all.

During his time there, Cisneros worked at Jim Edmonds’ nowshuttered steakhouse Fifteen before landing a gig at the St. Louis Club under Pierre Chambrain, who’d previously been the chef at the White House. There, Cisneros developed a love for classical French cooking that would inform his style as he progressed in his career.

Cisneros did a brief stint at Elaia, then returned to the St. Louis Club before taking on the executivechef gig at the Copper Pig. At his

first management position, Cisneros admits he was challenged, though he learned as he went.

Eventually, his desire to get back into fine dining got the best of him, and he took a step down when the opportunity arose to take on a linecook position under Ben Grupe at Elaia. As Cisneros explains it, the experience was perhaps the most formative of his entire career.

“Ben was training for the Bocuse d’Or and the Culinary Olympics at the time, and he shared everything he was doing with me,” Cisneros says. “It was a privilege being there and being able to support him. It was one of the highlights of my career.”

Though Cisneros enjoyed working at Elaia, he was intrigued when he heard that Mike Randolph was opening a high-end tasting-menu concept, Privado.

Competitive by nature, Cisneros saw it as an opportunity to push himself by working for another of the city’s top chefs, one whose style was entirely different than anything he’d previously expe-

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rienced. He made a call, the pair connected, and before he knew it he was tapped to be Privado’s chef de cuisine.

“As I am looking for my own style, I think it is important to take on knowledge from others,” Cisneros explains. “Mike’s style is very different than mine, which is why it works.”

Although he is happy with his current path, Cisneros sometimes wonders what things would be like if he hadn’t gotten injured.

However, he’s happy that the kitchen still affords him as much of an opportunity as soccer to honor his competitive nature — if not more.

“It’s why I choose to work with great chefs who have great reputations,” Cisneros explains. “I cook next to them and I compete.

I always want to work with someone better than me so I can challenge myself to be just as good — or even better.”

Cisneros took a break from Privado’s kitchen to share his

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thoughts on the St. Louis food-andbeverage scene, his passion for Peruvian food and the one ingredient he and Randolph agree will never be on Privado’s menu.

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

Before I considered cooking professionally, I was playing college soccer and playing on the reserves for the St. Louis Lions.

What daily ritual is non-negotiable for you?

Coffee, and coffee from a great local company like Blueprint Coffee.

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

Reading our guests’ minds to receive honest feedback.

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

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t. Louis is having its first vegan festival, St. Louis VegFest, on August 4. It’s slated to take place from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the World’s Fair Pavilion in Forest Park.

The festival is being held by the St. Louis Animal Rights Team. Sasha Monik, one of the lead organizers, says she’s very excited to finally host a vegan festival in the Midwest. After living in Los Angeles for six years, Monik wanted to bring the unforgettable experiences she’s had at vegan festivals elsewhere back to her hometown.

“It is a one-day, family-friendly event that will show all the aspects of a vegan lifestyle,” she says. “A carnival, but veganized.”

Originally the planners only expected a few hundred visitors, but based on their Facebook page and shares, they are now expecting 3,000 to 5,000 people from all over the country, Monik says.

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and chefs is much more collaborative than guests may realize.

We have a very close relationship with Anne [Lehman] at Dirty Girl Farms, and I think it’s amazing what she’s able to grow for both the chef and bartender community. For example, I was really looking for black mint from Peru, and I got ahold of some seeds from the chef at Mango. Now she’s able to germinate them for us, and she mentioned how other chefs have been looking for it as well. We’re all helping each other! It works the other way around as well where the farmers inspire us. For example, Bohlen Farms just harvested all of this amazing baby corn, and we knew immediately that we could do something cool with that at Privado, so we bought a bunch of it to do a course of mini elotes.

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

I’m Peruvian, so I’d love to see a Peruvian restaurant that focuses on raw fish (a cevichería) or a poll-

ería (our kind of chicken shack that just serves pollo a la brasa and French fries). We did a popup of a pollería at Privado, and everyone loved it!

Who is your St. Louis food crush?

Qui Tran of Nudo House and Mai Lee. I’ve known him even before I started working professionally in this industry, and I have always admired him. I used to help him with private events, and he’s hospitable from the front of the house to the back of the house.

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

José Venta of Sidney Street Cafe … that man is talented. We’ve had the privilege of doing a few collaboration dinners with chef Randolph and chef Nashan, so we’ve had a chance to spend some time together. I really appreciate his cooking.

Which ingredient is most representative of your personality?

An old-world wine like a Bordeaux. I’d like to think of myself as an old soul; I’m always very calm,

organized and quiet in the kitchen.

And even though cooking with ingredients like Bordeaux is kind of old school, I’m classically French trained, and these fundamentals of cooking still inspire me today.

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

I would be playing professional soccer, or at least trying to!

Name an ingredient never allowed in your restaurant.

Truffle oil and okra. It’s something that chef Randolph and I share. I just can’t do the texture.

What is your after-work hangout?

4 Hands, Civil Life or Fairview Lounge. Fairview Lounge carries two of my favorite Peruvian beers: Cusqueña and Cerveceria Barbarian.

What’s your food or beverage guilty pleasure?

A Budweiser and a good burger.

What would be your last meal on earth?

Pierre Koffmann’s pigs trotter and potato puree. n

The festival has no entry fee.

Some of the main events will include speakers every hour from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., including chefs, a cookbook author, a physician and more. There will also be a side stage with cooking demos.

Currently more than 60 vendors have registered to host tables in and around the pavilion. They will be selling clothing, art, food, cosmetics and anything vegan.

Many volunteer and activism

“Vegans can have a potluck in the park whenever we want. This is for everyone.” groups will also have tables so visitors can learn more about their causes.

There will be a kids corner with face painting and a ventriloquist, as well as a yoga and massage area for visitors to enjoy. Families are encouraged to come with their children and pets, Monik says.

“St. Louis VegFest underlines the many benefits and flavors of plant-based eating and shows how easy and delicious it is to choose healthier, more sustainable, and compassionate foods,”

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Confluence Kombucha is one of the local restaurants participating in VegFest. | MABEL SUEN the St. Louis Animal Rights Team writes in a prepared release.

Many of the food vendors are local vegan and vegetarian businesses, including Confluence Kombucha, Seedz Cafe, Frida’s and more.

If you are looking for goods from the vendors or food, they will only be available until 5 p.m.

From then until the festival ends, DJs from Utopia Studios will be hosting a dance party.

This event is for all ages and stresses inclusivity. It is not just an event for vegans or vegetarians,

Monik says.

“Vegans can have a potluck in the park whenever we want,” she says. “This is for everyone.”

Sponsors of the event include local restaurant and food truck Bombay Food Junkies, Carol House Furniture, Lush Cosmetics and natural-juice business St. Louis Juice Press.

“With an estimated 140,000 vegetarians and vegans living in the greater St. Louis area, we expect this event to be a rousing success,” the St. Louis Animal Rights Team says in its release. n

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t. Louis has a new sports bistro in town. Champs on Jefferson (3701 Jefferson Street, 314-354-8444) opened last month and is serving up healthy and delicious bar food, hookah and drinks in the heart of south city.

“This is not your average sports bar,” says chef Anthony Stewart.

The building housing Champs on Jefferson previously held Spare No Rib, which has since moved to Gravois and again shares space with Egg. The owner of all three restaurants, Lassaad Jelitti, wanted to turn the building on Jefferson into something new and recruited his friend Anthony Stewart to help.

Stewart is a longtime chef, trained mainly in American, Italian and Asian cuisine. He knew

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wo hundred years ago, a river ferry operated on the block of 142 North Main Street in St. Charles. It was called Chauvin’s Ferry. A historic plaque on site today commemorates a newspaper ad from 1820: “Found: Barrel of whiskey, Chauvin’s Ferry.” To reclaim the barrel, the owner had to show proof of ownership and reimburse the ferry operator for the ad.

Now, with a name inspired by that history, the Lost Whiskey (142 N. Main Street, St. Charles; 636-925-0846) resides in that same block — bringing not only the missing whiskey but also an extensive menu to Old Town’s Main Street scene.

Paula Zingrich opened the establishment at the end of April. She owns two other bar/restaurant combos in St. Lou-

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Try tacos, or a variety of other riffs on sports bar favorites, at Champs on Jefferson. | LEXIE MILLER the space should turn into a sports bar because that’s what fits the neighborhood, he says.

Now Stewart works alongside Marlon Whitfield to run Champs on Jefferson. They want customers to not feel like they are in just any sports bar. They made their dining room and lounge areas full of sunlight and bright colors so that it is not like a man cave like other sports bars, Whitfield says.

“This is an experience,” he says.

The menu also sets Champs apart. Stewart wants to serve healthy and flavor-packed meals.

To that end, he’s using a special spice mix he calls Layla’s. Named after his daughter, this blend of is, Pepper’s Bar and Grill and the Lou, the latter of which opened late last year.

Yet she was still certain she had time for one more bar.

“I was crazy for trying to buy two bars in the same year,” Zingrich, 45, says.

“But in a couple years we are going to sit back and laugh at this whole thing, saying, ‘Remember when we couldn’t sleep, couldn’t eat, stressing about whether or not we are gonna make it?’”

Now open Monday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 1 a.m., the Lost Whiskey operates as a hole-in-the-wall karaoke bar while simultaneously kicking it up a notch with a full food menu.

Chef and co-owner Latrell Tompkin as well as general manager and co-owner Tory Knight also work with Zingrich at her St. Louis-themed restaurant, the Lou. But the Lost Whiskey has a vibe all its own, Knight says.

“It’s a place where you can come and relax during the day to have a nice meal, but it’s also split to where you can come at 11 o’clock or midnight, drink and sing some karaoke,” Knight says. “It’s a place that you can enjoy from open to close.”

The Lost Whiskey is particularly proud of its “Lost Whiskey Burger,” served on

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paprika, turmeric, cumin, garlic and more is used on the wings, in the burgers and on the tacos. The “Layla Crunch” is similar but has red pepper flakes and a few more spices. It’s used to top the salads and burger buns.

One of the most popular dishes, and one of Stewart’s personal favorites, is the “Shrooms,” or fried mushrooms served with housemade ranch ($5). The turkey burger ($10) and sweet chili wings ($10) have also been hits and are loved by Stewart and Whitfield.

Stewart also boasts about the lamb burger, which costs $12 — much cheaper than other places, he says.

Champs also has a full bar with many signature cocktails. The restaurant keeps a mixologist on deck so customers can get custommade drinks.

“We haven’t heard any complaints about drinks yet,” Stewart says.

The two-story building is broken into three separate but cohesive spaces. The “infield” is the main dining room with a bar, the “clubhouse” is the upstairs lounge and bar and the large back patio has the “dugout,” a space for local performers. The back patio is also a great place for smoking cigars and hookah in the evenings.

Every day there are different themes, including spoken-word Wednesday where local poets can perform, $5 Friday when everything on the menu is $5 and karaoke nights.

Whitfield and Stewart like to describe their place as somewhere casual that locals can just hang out, eat and drink for good prices.

“We want to be like the Cheers of the neighborhood,” Whitfield says.

The restaurant hopes to add brunch in the near future. There are plans to feature chicken and waffles, shrimp and grits and, most importantly, bottomless mimosas.

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And for vegetarians, they also serve the Impossible Burger — the veggie-friendly patty that is “meatless meat.”

The bar has karaoke on Wednesday nights, with a DJ that also plays at the Lou. Zingrich had to jump through many hoops to get the bar open (let’s just say

opening up a bar in a historic district is not as easy as it sounds). Some around her doubted. But she never gave up.

“People tried to push back and say, ‘Well if you want to be a restaurant, why do you do [karaoke and games]?’ And I just say, ‘Why not both? It’s going to be a strong restaurant that caters to nightlife,’” Zingrich says. “I’m going to do this.” n

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Well Enough Alone Zack Schwartz goes solo for the Hollow Ends’ debut LP, Bears in Mind Written by

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few years back, Zack Schwartz and his then-bandmates embarked on a tour that he describes, unequivocally, as “a disaster.” The singer, guitarist and sole full-time member of the fervent folk outfit the Hollow Ends blames a lemon of a van he purchased for the bulk of the troubles.

“We had tires blow off on the road and pieces of the brakes fall off while we were driving,” Schwartz recalls. “I’m literally still paying off debts from that tour.”

While that experience didn’t scare him away from performing music on the road — he has a 22date tour booked for the Hollow Ends later this summer and fall — it did instill in him the reality of touring’s toll on musicians, and how lucky (and rare) it is for everything to go well.

“I think those experiences are good for you,” he says. “You’re pretty vulnerable going on tour, and it’s good to get a healthy dose of how bad it can go. The fact that we all survived was great, but it was very sobering.”

Part of that sobering experience involved Schwartz realizing that he didn’t especially love being in a band. He first made waves around town as a member of Amen Lucy, Amen, a group that channeled much of the roots-revival music championed by stomp-and-shout string bands like the Lumineers.

Being in that group was a learning experience on several fronts.

“One thing with Amen Lucy, Amen, I was learning how to do all this stuff — learning how to write songs and get songs to match my voice,” Schwartz says. “I was learning to be a leader of a band, which

“This is me at the center of it, and I am responsible for the whole thing,” says Hollow Ends’ Zack Schwartz. | KEVIN KERSTING

I wasn’t especially good at it.”

For the Hollow Ends, Schwartz still leans on some of those old friendships — former bandmates Jenn Rudisill and Stephen Lightle contribute to Hollow Ends’ debut Bears in Mind. But Schwartz makes no bones about being at the center of this project.

“Amen Lucy, Amen was very democratic, whereas this is me at the center of it, and I am responsible for the whole thing,” he says.

“I kind of prefer that; I suppose I am sort of type A. Things run smoother when I run them.”

The run-up to Bears in Mind has somewhat of a long tail; Schwartz released what he now calls a “demo-ish EP” in 2015, sowing the seeds of what he hoped to create with the new LP. “The new record is a lot like [the EP], but I guess the other players had a lot more influence and there are a lot more soloists on the new record,” says Schwartz. “I think having other people’s influence on it is an important part of why it’s more fleshed out.”

On Bears in Mind, Schwartz points his flinty and expressive

voice toward the rafters and strums his guitar with plenty of force alongside some gypsy-jazz flourishes. It is an unsubtle record in many ways — there’s a stridency to his performance that demands a fair share of the listener’s attention. Schwartz says that, when tailoring sets for live performance, he looks for ways to temper the in-your-face approach.

“It’s me and a guitar and a kick drum and a tambourine pedal,” he says of his live setup. “The challenge was to make them interesting with such basic things to work with. I had to draw from new styles. Playing a set of fouron-the-floor, loud-strumming, loud-singing is gonna get old after a 40-minute set. My goal was to do something interesting that people can hang with during a set where it’s just me.

“It’s still a work in progress,” Schwartz admits. “In that way, the songwriting — whether or not it’s any good, I leave up to the listener — but I had to think more about a structure of a song. I had to go back to the fundamentals of a song when it’s only me on stage.”

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Schwartz adds that he likes having a finished product he’s proud of, but “the truth is I hate recording. In order to get it right, you have to sit in front of a computer for hours and hours.” He calls albums “just a big musical dissertation” and would rather be performing songs in front of crowd.

“My passion is playing in front of people,” he says. “There’s nothing like when a show goes well, and there’s nothing like when a show goes bad. That risk makes the whole thing even better.”

And the road still beckons Schwartz as he prepares to take his songs across the South and Midwest later this year. While the release show this weekend will feature some local players and singers backing him up, Schwartz is more than happy to hit the road as a true solo act.

“I am perfectly happy touring by myself,” he says. “Like I said, it just seems to fit my personality.”

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The STL Sanders Band Keeps Protesters Dancing Written by

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ody Henry lives in High Ridge, which isn’t forever away from St. Louis but is enough of a haul that he tries to economize his time as well as possible. On a recent weeknight, his planning skills are put to a serious test, with an interview preceding an hour of personal practice on the sousaphone, then another hour dedicated to finishing a song with Funky Butt Brass Band cohort Austin Cebulske. All of this before a lengthy rehearsal with Emily Wallace to prep for a weekend show at Jazz at the Bistro.

It’s on the fourth floor of that building — filled with rehearsal spaces, a small studio and even a computer lab — that Henry often juggles his musical efforts. This fall, he’ll be in his eleventh year teaching young players there how to work together in combos.

His students “also get to check out shows at the bistro for free, which is pretty sweet for them,” he says with a chuckle. “I wish that there was a program like this when I was their age.”

With all of the time that he spends working on his craft, an unusual project has become a part of his life in the last two years. The STL Sanders Band is an act that never rehearses, coming together only to provide music at marches and protests of a progressive bent.

“The name came from the #stillsanders hashtag,” Henry explains.

“It was birthed the week before the Democratic National Convention, when it was a sure thing that Hillary Clinton would get the nomination. We still wanted to show the support that Bernie had, to help influence the party. It wasn’t about saying that we wouldn’t vote for Hillary. It was more like, ‘Keep these ideas in mind, or the worst will happen.’ And we all know how that turned out.

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“We heard screaming and running ... so we started playing, and you could see the police loosen up a little bit. The music was a peaceful weapon.”

“So the March for Bernie was in July of 2016,” he continues. “I offered to put a band together. A lot of musicians had voiced support for the Sanders platform. A year later, with Trump elected, I noticed a lot of protests and marches; maybe I just hadn’t noticed them before, but the social-media boom was picking up. We wanted to help, in some way, so we marched to have Donald Trump show his tax returns and started adding to other marches that had progressive values.”

Along the way, the group found itself at a variety of events, from the March For Our Lives to the Families Belong Together march.

Another event, though, reminds Henry why he organized STL Sanders Band in the first place.

“It wasn’t a march,” he says, “as much as a super-big protest, around the Jason Stockley verdict.

It was really tense. There was a police line, all of them in riot gear.

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ing were pepper sprayed and all that stuff. When we were getting ready to play, we heard screaming and people running from the front row; the police had taken a step forward and it scared everybody. So we started playing and you could see the police loosen up a little bit. Protesters started loosening up, too, dancing in front of the musicians. The music was a peaceful weapon.”

The songs that the STL Sanders Band pulls from reflect the kind of tracks you might expect of a group of this sort, like Bob Marley’s “Get Up, Stand Up” and “One Love.” Trombone Shorty’s “Hurricane Season” finds itself played frequently. Because Sanders himself sang and recorded a version of “This Land Is Your Land” back in 1987 it’s become another bit of the STL Sanders Band canon, even though Henry gets a laugh at Sanders’ vocals, which “were almost William Shatner-like. It’s awful.”

And at other times, the group just wings it, with Henry tossing out instructions like “let’s do a groove in b-flat. I’ll start out on the sousaphone and the drums fall in line.

If you have the right players there, they’ll make it work naturally. And if you hear protesters around you doing a chant, like ‘this is what democracy looks like,’ we’ll just put a groove under that and enhance what they’re already doing.”

True today and probably true in the future, the STL Sanders Band is a mixed-group affair, with players coming and going depending on the times of events and their general availability. At different marches, the band has included members of MU330, the Grooveliner, Rev. Sekou & the Holy Ghost, the Hooten Hallers and, at the core of things, an amalgam of horn players from both the Saint Boogie Brass Band

and the Funky Butt Brass Band.

With Chris Tomlin of Saint Boogie as a frequent contributor, Henry will sometimes shift off of sousaphone, subbing in on trombone.

It’s the kind of switch that’s built of both practicality and goodwill.

“Chris plays with the Sanders Band, but his main passion is Saint Boogie, just like mine is Funky Butt,” Henry says. “When I ask people to come help, they’ll come. There’s not a lot of competition in St. Louis; we all want each other to do well. There’s an idea of playing good music in the streets, with a lot of mutual respect between these different bands.”

Henry isn’t sure if the band’s namesake is aware of the STL Sanders Band, nor has he heard of a group of similar name elsewhere.

(There is, though, the amazingly named Sousaphones Against Hate in Chicago.) He is sure that there’s a place for them in contemporary St. Louis.

“STL Sanders Band,” Henry says, “was influenced most by my seeing a Facebook live video of a Trump rally. He didn’t attend it, but his supporters were there, and the opposition that came to meet them had a band. All the Trump supporters were yelling at the band, and … oh! I thought that was brilliant.

“That’s what makes me want to do this more, seeing music drown out people that are yelling at the top of their lungs,” he continues.

“You’re walking with people, raising everyone’s spirits. People are dancing around you and having a good time. We get compliments from people, like, ‘Hey, you made this a lot easier to do.’ It can make things a joyous occasion. I think St. Louis can be a happy place.

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Vintage Vinyl Buys Massive Metal Collection Written by

DANIEL HILL

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att Harnish has grown accustomed, in recent days, to asking himself a certain specific question as he works: “What the hell is this?”

The longtime employee at Vintage Vinyl (6610 Delmar Boulevard, University City; 314-721-4096) has been sorting through the record shop’s latest haul, a massive collection of approximately 5,000 CDs, most of them of the heavymetal variety. Packed with rarities and special pressings, it’s the largest lot Har-

Misfits, Carnage and Lawnmower Deth ... it’s all there. There’s a little bit of goth stuff as well (Bauhaus, Christian Death) in addition to some punk (Anti-Nowhere League, Ramones). But the overwhelming majority is metal.

“I’ve already found 47 Venom CDs, and a bunch of Pentagram,” Harnish says with a laugh. “It’s solid stuff. It’s not just like he bought every metal CD out there. He bought every good metal CD out there ... and then every side project that everybody that was in that band was ever in, and every solo album they ever made.

“If you like Iron Maiden, we got 20 Bruce Dickinson solo albums, we got 30 Paul Di’Anno solo albums, we got 15 Blaze Bayley solo albums,” he continues.

“Things you didn’t even know existed.”

In a bonus for customers, a surprising number of these items are autographed.

Harnish says they’re not going to jack the prices up significantly for those pieces,

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Funky Butt Brass Band’s 10th Anniversary Show with Special Guests TBA

One of many deluxe editions from Vintage Vinyl’s big metal score. | DANIEL HILL nish has seen in all his years.

“We’ve done multiple thousands before,” he says. “But not since I’ve been working here — and I’ve been working here for over twenty years — have we had a collection this big and this good.”

The huge collection came to the shop when a 47-year-old metalhead doctor from Kirksville passed away and his family, which has St. Louis ties, reached out.

According to Harnish, purchasing the lot was a no-brainer.

“We had to have it, because yeah,” he says. “When are we ever gonna see anything like this again?”

“When I found out that this belonged to a 47-year-old man,” adds Vintage Vinyl owner Tom “Papa” Ray, “my first take was, ‘He was single.’”

Already, Vintage Vinyl’s metal CD section has expanded to three times its previous size — and that’s just accounting for one-fifth of the late doctor’s haul, Harnish says. The rest of the collection is in cardboard boxes in the back of the store, waiting to be sorted. Cradle of Filth, In Flames, Cathedral, Bolt Thrower, Behemoth, Anthrax, Neurosis, Mayhem, Judas Priest, Motorhead, Satyricon, Testament,

instead making the signatures a little bonus for those who come into the store and pick them up.

“There’s autographed stuff, but then there’s a lot of ticket stubs packaged inside the cases,” he says. “Or, like, for Crematory or somebody like that, he had his handwritten setlist for what they played at Milwaukee Metal Fest just tucked in the sleeve. So we’re leaving all that stuff there; it’s little surprise bonus stuff. We want to reward people for finding this crazy shit by having more crazy shit inside it.”

Word has already been getting out.

A man from California called the store in order to get his hands on a Samhain box set the store posted online, and local metalheads have been trickling in ever since Vintage Vinyl started posting about the cache on social media.

That stream of people is unlikely to dry up anytime soon.

“Everybody who comes in that looks at the metal section, we’re like, ‘Keep coming back; it’s gonna keep coming out,’” Harnish says. “I’m thinking six weeks, two months, for us to finally get through all of it.” n

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No BS! Brass Band. | VIA PARADIGM AGENCY

VOTED ST. LOUIS’ FAVORITE BAR & BEST SPORTS BAR

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ing second-line style arrangements and

It’s not news to local music fans that you

Mingus). With eleven horns and a drum

don’t have to be from New Orleans to

kit, No BS! promises plenty of funk, soul

create a pretty great New Orleans-style

and jazz chops without even a modicum

brass band — the ubiquity of our own

of bullshit.

Funky Butt Brass Band is proof of that.

Pass the Greens: Local soul aficionado

The Crescent City’s horn-based musical

and top-tier crate-digger Hal Greens

export has reached Richmond, Virginia,

opens the soul with a DJ set.

applying them to everything from ’80s

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THE ALLEY TONES: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

BOOGIE ON THE BOULEVARD: 5 p.m., free. The Boulevard-Saint Louis, S. Brentwood Blvd. & Galleria Parkway, Richmond Heights, 314-558-4151.

GRAND MARQUIS BAND: 10 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314436-5222.

HUNTER: 4 p.m., free. Hammerstone’s, 2028 S. 9th St., St. Louis, 314-773-5565.

JONATHAN TYLER AND THE NORTHERN LIGHTS: 8 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-6989.

JOYWAVE: w/ Grandson 8 p.m., $16-$18. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

KINGDOM BROTHERS: 8 p.m., free. Hammerstone’s, 2028 S. 9th St., St. Louis, 314-773-5565.

LANDON TEWERS: w/ Hotel Books, Ky Rodgers 6 p.m., $15. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

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berry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.

LIVE COMEDY DVD: 9 p.m., $5. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226.

THE OPHELIAS: w/ Honeydew, Motherbear 8 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.

TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND: 7 p.m., $35-$150. The Fox Theatre, 527 N. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, 314-534-1111.

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BONNY DOON: 9 p.m., $7. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.

DAN WHITAKER & THE SHINEBENDERS: 8 p.m., $5. San Loo, 3211 Cherokee St., St. Louis, 314696-2888.

FLYNT FLOSSY: w/ Turquoise Jeep 7 p.m., $12. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

THE HOLLOW ENDS ALBUM RELEASE SHOW: 8 p.m., $8. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.

HOUR CLOUD: w/ We Are Warm 9 p.m., $7. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis,

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HELL NIGHT/SWEAT SHOPPE SPLIT RELEASE 9 p.m. Saturday, July 28. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street. $10. 314-535-0353.

led by Ultraman stalwart Tim Jamison’s bright, punchy vocal approach and anchored by drummer Gabe Usery’s tight sense of rhythm and sharp fills. The new EP comes via St. Louis’ Encapsu-

Two of St. Louis’ finest punk-adjacent

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acts join forces for a quick ripper of a

local affair.

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Quarter Hour of Power: Opening the

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show will be fourteen bands, including

two tracks of buzzsaw guitars and for-

Bruiser Queen, Not Waving But Drown-

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ing, Antithought and more. Before you

piercing-shriek vocals, bringing no

balk at that sizable and potentially time-

small amount of metal to the mix on

consuming proposition, consider this:

“Unincorporated” and “Overburden.”

The group of local acts will each perform

Sweat Shoppe, meanwhile, delivers

one song, with the goal being to play four-

three tracks of anthemic hardcore —

teen songs in fourteen minutes. Seems

none of which even approaches the

like a can’t-miss affair to us!

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JARREN BENTON: w/ Kato On The Track 8 p.m., $20-$75. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314289-9050.

JET BLACK ALLEY CAT: w/ Sleeptalk, DBMK, TREY, Z-Major 7 p.m., $10-$12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

JIMMIE VAUGHAN: 8 p.m., $25. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.

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

LEROY JODIE PIERSON: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

POOLSIDE AT THE FLAMINGO: 7 p.m., $10-$12.

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

ROCKIN’ EDDIE BAND FEATURING BOB STROGER: 10 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

ROLAND JOHNSON & THE SOUL ENDEAVORS: 8 p.m., $3. Hammerstone’s, 2028 S. 9th St., St. Louis, 314-773-5565.

SUBTRONICS: w/ Shlump 8 p.m., $10-$20. 2720 Cherokee Performing Arts Center, 2720 Cherokee St, St. Louis, 314-276-2700.

TEENAGE WRIST: w/ The Greeting Committee, Synthetic Sun 7 p.m., $10.57-$13. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

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Kiki 8 p.m., free. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-6989.

VASUDEVA: w/ Jr. Clooney, Holy Posers 9 p.m., $5. The Sinkhole, 7423 South Broadway, St. Louis, 314-328-2309.

WAR OF THE WINGS: 7 p.m., $10. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.

SATURDAY 28

106.5 THE ARCH PRESENTS THE BOY BAND NIGHT: 7 p.m., $12-$15. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

A TRIBUTE TO THE QUEENS OF NEO SOUL 2.0: 6 p.m., $20. Backstreet Jazz & Blues, 610 Westport Plaza, Maryland Heights, 314-878-5800.

APEX SHRINE: 7 p.m., free. Das Bevo Biergarten, 4749 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-224-5521.

BAD JACKET 9 RELEASE: w/ Motherfather, Even Then, Safety Beach 8 p.m., free. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.

BARE KNUCKLE COMEDY: 9 p.m., $5. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois, St. Louis, 314-352-5226.

BENIGHTED: 8 p.m., $14-$16. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

BIG EASY: 9 p.m., free. Nightshift Bar & Grill, 3979 Mexico Road, St. Peters, 636-441-8300.

CHICAGO FARMER ALBUM RELEASE: 8 p.m., $10-$13. The Bootleg, 4140 Manchester Ave., St. Louis, 314-775-0775.

DJ PAULY D: 9 p.m., $25. Ameristar Casino, 1 Ameristar Blvd., St. Charles, 636-949-7777.

HELL NIGHT, SWEAT SHOPPE: 9 p.m., $10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

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JEFF BECK AND PAUL RODGERS: w/ Ann Wilson 6 p.m., TBA. Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, I-70 & Earth City Expwy., Maryland Heights, 314-298-9944.

JOHN MCVEY BAND: 9 p.m., $3. Hammerstone’s, 2028 S. 9th St., St. Louis, 314-773-5565.

KENT EHRHART AND THE BLUE MOON BAND: 8 p.m., $5. Hwy 61 Roadhouse and Kitchen, 34 S Old Orchard Ave, Webster Groves, 314-968-0061.

MODERN GOLD RECORD RELEASE SHOW: w/ The Bad Haircuts, The Shuggah Pies 8 p.m., $10.

Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314498-6989.

PRODUCERS UNITE: 9 p.m., $5. Upstairs Lounge, 3131 S. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, 314-773-3388.

RAKIM: w/ Biz Markie 9 p.m., 9pm. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

RAW EARTH: 9 p.m., free. Ferguson Farmers’ Market, Spot Drive and Florissant Road, St. Louis, 314-324-4298.

RICH MCDONOUGH & THE RHYTHM RENEGADES: 3 p.m., free. Hammerstone’s, 2028 S. 9th St., St. Louis, 314-773-5565.

ROCKY & THE WRANGLERS: 4 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

SOFRITO: 9:30 p.m., free. Sophie’s Artist Lounge & Cocktail Club, 3224 Locust St second floor of .Zack, St. Louis, 314-775-9551.

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

WINO: w/ Xasthur 8 p.m., $15. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

SUNDAY 29

AFTER WEDNESDAY RELEASE SHOW: w/ Thames, the Astounds 8 p.m., $10. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.

THE BIG LEBOWSKI TRIVIA NIGHT: 7 p.m., free.

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

CASEY FLESCH: w/ Kendra Jones, Emily Hickner, Justin Luke 8 p.m., $7. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.

CHRIS BROWN: w/ 6lack, H.E.R., Rich the Kid 6 p.m., $25-$149.99. Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, I-70 & Earth City Expwy., Maryland Heights, 314-298-9944.

CLUSTERPLUCK: 4:30 p.m., free. Das Bevo Biergarten, 4749 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-224-5521.

LOVE JONES “THE BAND”: 8 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314436-5222.

MESS: w/ Ursa Major, Young Animals 10 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.

MILLION DOLLAR TRIO: 3 p.m., $10-$15. Ozark Theatre, 103 E. Lockwood Ave., St. Louis, 314-962-7000.

OTEP: 6 p.m., $18-$20. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

ROMASA: w/ Chalked Up, Coffin Fit 7 p.m., $5.

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

MONDAY 30

EMPLOYER: w/ Necessities, Mariner, Red Foreman and The Acid Flashback at Nightmare Beach 8 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.

ONEIDA: 7 p.m., $10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

SYNA SO PRO: w/ JoAnn Mcneil, Asumaya 9 p.m., $5. The Sinkhole, 7423 South Broadway, St. Louis, 314-328-2309.

THIRD SIGHT “SPECIAL EDITION”: 8 p.m., $10.

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

TUESDAY 31

BLIND WILLIE & BROADWAY COLLECTIVE: 9 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

LIQUID SWORDS: w/ Liquid Swords, Magmadiver, Alan Smithee 8 p.m., $5. The Sinkhole, 7423 South Broadway, St. Louis, 314-328-2309.

WELLER: w/ A Leaf in the Street, Isabel Rex, whskygngr 8 p.m., $7. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.

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AGENT ORANGE: w/ Fea, Lysergik 8 p.m., $15.

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

FRESH PRODUCE: THE BEAT BATTLE: first Wednesday of every month, 9 p.m., free. The

Monocle, 4510 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314935-7003.

GRETA VAN FLEET: 8 p.m., $35-$40. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

MINIHORSE: w/ the Astounds 9 p.m., $7. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.

MOM AND DAD: w/ Echo Base Quartet 8 p.m., $5-$7. The Bootleg, 4140 Manchester Ave., St. Louis, 314-775-0775.

NO BS! BRASS BAND: 8 p.m., $13-$15. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.

THE SUMMER SLAUGHTER TOUR: w/ Between The Buried And Me, Born Of Osiris, Veil Of Maya, Erra, The Agony Scene, Allegaeon, Terror Universal, Soreption, Entheos 2 p.m., $29.50-$35. Pop’s Nightclub, 401 Monsanto Ave., East St. Louis, 618-274-6720.

THIS JUST IN AFTER THE BURIAL: W/ The Acacia Strain, Tue., Nov. 6, 6 p.m., $20-$24. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.

AFTER WEDNESDAY RELEASE SHOW: W/ Thames, the Astounds, Sun., July 29, 8 p.m., $10. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.

ALL ROOSTERED UP: Sat., Aug. 25, 8 p.m., $5.

Hwy 61 Roadhouse and Kitchen, 34 S Old Orchard Ave, Webster Groves, 314-968-0061.

BAD JACKET 9 RELEASE: W/ Motherfather, Even Then, Safety Beach, Sat., July 28, 8 p.m., free.

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

BENEFIT FOR THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ST. LOUIS: W/ Bobby Stevens, Dan Johanning, Andy Binder, Fri., Aug. 3, 8 p.m., $7. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226.

BIG GIGANTIC: W/ Flamingosis, Thu., Nov. 1, 8 p.m., $29.50-$32. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

BLIND WILLIE & BROADWAY COLLECTIVE: Tue., July 31, 9 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

CAAMP: Sat., Dec. 8, 8 p.m., $13-$15. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.

CHANTICLEER: Tue., Oct. 2, 8 p.m., $19-$42. Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, 4431 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, 314-373-8200.

CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD: Tue., Oct. 16, 8 p.m., $25-$28. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

COFRESI: Fri., Aug. 17, 8 p.m., $12-$15. The Monocle, 4510 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-935-7003.

COLE SWINDELL: Fri., Aug. 17, 8 p.m., $42-$47.

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

COREY SMITH: Thu., Sept. 20, 8 p.m., $20-$23.

Thu., Sept. 20, 8 p.m., $20-$23. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

COUNTERPARTS: W/ Being As An Ocean, Have Mercy, Varials, Wed., Aug. 29, 7 p.m., $18.

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

DEAR GENRE: W/ The Ricters, Slish, Thu., Sept.

13, 9 p.m., $7. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226.

DEVOTCHKA: W/ Orkestra Mendoza, Fri., Oct. 5, 8 p.m., $25.50-$28.50. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

DOG FASHION DISCO: Mon., Oct. 22, 6:30 p.m., $15-$17. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

DR. JENNIFER PASCUAL: Sun., Nov. 4, 2:30 p.m., $17. Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, 4431 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, 314-373-8200.

EARTH GROANS: Tue., Aug. 21, 7 p.m., $10-$12.

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

EMPLOYER: W/ Necessities, Mariner, Red Foreman and The Acid Flashback at Nightmare Beach, Mon., July 30, 8 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.

END OF SUMMER BEACH PARTY: W/ Sister Wizzard, Polyshades, Sat., Sept. 22, 8 p.m., $10. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226.

ERIC PREWITT BAND: Fri., Aug. 3, 7 p.m., free.

Hwy 61 Roadhouse and Kitchen, 34 S Old Orchard Ave, Webster Groves, 314-968-0061.

THE FEW: W/ Inner Outlines, Marriott, Luxora, Fri., Aug. 24, 6:30 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108 Locust

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

G.O.A.T.: W/ Yr Mom, Thu., Aug. 23, 8 p.m., $10.

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

GHOST FOOT: W/ Lindseys, Shitstorm, Brainpal, $7. The Sinkhole, 7423 South Broadway, St. Louis, 314-328-2309.

GWAR: W/ Hatebreed, Thu., Oct. 25, 7 p.m., $25$28. Pop’s Nightclub, 401 Monsanto Ave., East St. Louis, 618-274-6720.

HANSON: Wed., Nov. 7, 8 p.m., $36.50-$86.50.

Stifel Theatre, 1400 Market St, St. Louis, 314-499-7600.

HOLLYWOOD BABBLE-ON: W/ Kevin Smith, Ralph Garman, Sun., Oct. 14, 8 p.m., $39.50-$$50.

The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis,

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Five sure-fire shows to close out the week

FRIDAY, JULY 27 Flynt Flossy w/ Turquoise Jeep, BADDAYDRE, OuttaTownAnakin 7 p.m. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street. $12. 314-535-0353.

With its warped approach of Outkastmeets-Tim and Eric Awesome Show, 2010’s “Lemme Smang It” was the internet’s version of a one-hit wonder.

And it’s not like Flynt Flossy or the rest of Turquoise Jeep care, but their YouTube output hasn’t broken a million views in roughly five years. Luckily, if Flossy’s latest record Eclectic Catapilla tells us anything, it’s that he’s the same wriggling rapper whether in or out of the limelight.

Teenage Wrist w/ the Greeting Committee, Synthetic Sun 7 p.m. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Boulevard. $10.57 to $13. 314-726-6161.

Presented by the Point (as if that $10.57 ticket price didn’t tip you off), Teenage Wrist is the kind of group that the radio station originally built its sound around. Twenty-five years after the full-on conversion of grunge to the mainstream, the group comes across as the practical prototype for the sound. The video for “Stoned, Alone” feels ripped straight from MTV2 at 2 a.m. — maybe someone could throw it on a VHS tape for true ’90s authenticity. Without the last two decades of alternative rock, though, Teenage Wrist wouldn’t have the agency to push the genre forward as it does on Chrome Neon Jesus, the debut album it recently released through Epitaph Records.

SATURDAY, JULY 28 Dracla w/ Maximum Effort, Kiki, DJ Limewire Prime 8 p.m. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave. Free. 314-498-6989.

Dracla’s hermetic nature is not undocumented. It was thanks to his selfimposed solitude that a pretender, Dracula, was able to reach big audiences, sell movie rights and become a household name. Rather than seek

314-726-6161.

HONYOCK: W/ Seashine, Sat., Aug. 25, 9 p.m., $7. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226.

JMSN: Sun., Sept. 23, 8 p.m., $15-$18. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314833-3929.

KALEB KIRBY: Sat., Aug. 11, 9 p.m., free. Sophie’s Artist Lounge & Cocktail Club, 3224 Locust St second floor of .Zack, St. Louis, 314-775-9551.

LES GRUFF AND THE BILLY GOAT: W/ Mayeux And Broussard, Garrett T. Capps, Fri., Sept. 28, 8 p.m., $7. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave.,

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revenge, St. Louis’ now-native vampire opts to play proto metal that edges on stoner rock territory. One of the city’s hardest-hitting and melodically minded drummers in Kevin Insinna propels the songs, while the rest of the band backs up the immortal connoisseur of wine — he prefers Cabernet Sauvignon to blood. Dracla has lived in solitude in recent months, but the announcement of this show has coaxed the caped one out for a return to the stage.

Social Caterpillar w/ Mammoth Piano, May Day Orchestra 9 p.m. Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust Street. Free.

314-241-2337.

To Milwaukee-based Social Caterpillar, everything is political — including opting to not be political. The troupe grabs folk with all its tangential threads to American music and wrings out the revisionist history. Released just last week, Motorcycle in 3 Movements sees the band working in tandem with Denver-based collective Utajahs, yet the record is much more glued than a simple split. The six tracks are meant to be heard via headphones, without interruptions. That’s a tall order, but one that rewards the listener, as the two groups alternate songs, effectively bleeding into each other’s approach with a natural and nuanced noise. On stage, Social Caterpillar delivers with all the musical hues of a chamber group while retaining an elastic and psychedelic core.

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SUNDAY, JULY 29 Mess w/ Young Animals, Ursa Major 10 p.m. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Avenue. $5.

314-772-2100.

Kansas City’s Mess is no stranger to St. Louis — its 2017 EP heartswithholes was recorded just across the river in Edwardsville by Ryan Wasoba at Bird Cloud, the same engineer and studio that helped craft Foxing’s The Albatross. That’s important to note, because Mess clearly cuts its revealing altrock from the same emo cloth as Foxing. With simple and solid songwriting, which is much harder than it seems, the band opts to take the utmost care of its sound. The sweet delivery may feel disarming, but it works: The songs are upfront and emotionally present.

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St. Louis, 314-352-5226.

LIGHTRIDER: W/ Pono AM, Flow Clinic, Daytime Television, Fri., Aug. 3, 7 p.m., $5-$10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

LIL BABY: W/ YK Osiris, City Girls, Kollision, B La B, 24 Heavy, Wed., Aug. 22, 8 p.m., $27.50$30. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

LIQUID SWORDS: W/ Liquid Swords, Magmadiver, Alan Smithee, Tue., July 31, 8 p.m., $5.

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

LO MOON: Sat., Oct. 27, 9 p.m., $13. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

LOVE JONES “THE BAND”: Sun., July 29, 8 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

LUDO: Sat., Oct. 27, 11 p.m., $25-$35. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

LUPE FIASCO: Thu., Sept. 13, 8 p.m., $30-$35.

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

MARK REYNOLDS MEMORIAL SHOW: W/ Free Dirt, Thank You Jesus, Saw Is Family, Sat., Aug. 4, 9 p.m., $7. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226.

MARVIN F. COCKRELL & FOCUS: W/ Darryl Gerdine, J. Shipp, Tobie Hudson, Edward Nicholson, Cylint Praize, Sat., Aug. 11, 7 p.m., $35$210. Grandel Theatre, 3610 Grandel Square, St. Louis, 314-533-0367.

MAXWELL: Thu., Nov. 15, 8 p.m., $32-$122. Stifel Theatre, 1400 Market St, St. Louis, 314-499-7600.

MICAH SCHNABEL: W/ The Wilderness, Fred Friction, Tue., Sept. 11, 9 p.m., $7. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226.

MILLION DOLLAR TRIO: Sun., July 29, 3 p.m., $10$15. Ozark Theatre, 103 E. Lockwood Ave., St. Louis, 314-962-7000.

ODDS LANE: Sat., Aug. 4, 2 p.m., free. Molly’s in Soulard, 816 Geyer Ave., St. Louis, 314-241-6200.

ORGONE: Fri., Nov. 2, 8 p.m., $15. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.

PAT TODD AND THE RANKOUTSIDERS: Thu., Sept.

20, 8 p.m., $8. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-6989.

PAUL OAKENFOLD: Sat., Dec. 1, 9 p.m., TBA. Ameristar Casino, 1 Ameristar Blvd., St. Charles, 636-949-7777.

PILE: W/ The Spirit of the Beehive, Sun., Oct. 7, 8 p.m., $10-$12. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.

THE PINK SPIDERS: W/ Bruiser Queen, Shark Dad, Tue., Aug. 14, 7 p.m., $10-$12. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

ROCKIN’ EDDIE BAND FEATURING BOB STROGER: Fri., July 27, 10 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

ROCKY & THE WRANGLERS: Sat., July 28, 4 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW: Sun., Sept.

30, 7 p.m., $5. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

SEPTEMBER MOURNING: W/ Kaleido, Charcoal Tongue, Thu., Sept. 27, 7 p.m., $10-$15. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

SISTERS UNITED: IT’S OUR TIME: W/ Yolanda Adams, MC Lyte, Stephanie Mills, Avery Sunshine, Marsha Ambrosius, Sun., Sept. 2, 7 p.m., $39.50-$89.50. The Fox Theatre, 527 N. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, 314-534-1111.

SOFI TUKKER: Tue., Oct. 9, 8 p.m., $15-$20. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.

STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN TRIBUTE: W/ Steve Pecaro, Tony Campanella, Mike Zito, Sat., Nov. 24, 8 p.m., $20-$22.50. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

THE STRUTS: W/ Spirit Animal, Tue., Oct. 23, 7 p.m., $23.50-$27. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

SUZY’S PLAYLIST: Sat., Aug. 11, 8 p.m., $5. Hwy 61 Roadhouse and Kitchen, 34 S Old Orchard Ave, Webster Groves, 314-968-0061.

SYNA SO PRO: W/ JoAnn Mcneil, Asumaya, Mon., July 30, 9 p.m., $5. The Sinkhole, 7423 South Broadway, St. Louis, 314-328-2309.

THE QUEEN’S SIX: Sat., Oct. 20, 8 p.m., $19-$42.

Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, 4431 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, 314-373-8200.

THIRD SIGHT “SPECIAL EDITION”: Mon., July 30, 8 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

THIRTEEN TOWERS: W/ Unfun, Christian Knoblach, Wed., Sept. 5, 9 p.m., $7. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226.

THUNDERPUSSY: Wed., Oct. 17, 8 p.m., $15-$18.

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

TINY STILLS: W/ Get Married, Treading Oceans, AwayFromReason, Eat Sleep Catapult, Wed., Sept. 5, 7 p.m., $10-$12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

TOM HALL: Sat., July 28, 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

VASUDEVA: W/ Jr. Clooney, Holy Posers, Fri., July 27, 9 p.m., $5. The Sinkhole, 7423 South Broadway, St. Louis, 314-328-2309.

WELLER: W/ A Leaf in the Street, Isabel Rex, whskygngr, Tue., July 31, 8 p.m., $7. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.

WHISKEY & THUNDER: W/ Kill the Creature, Sat., Aug. 4, 9:30 p.m., free. CBGB, 3163 S. Grand Blvd., St. Louis.

WILL HOGE: Fri., Nov. 2, 8 p.m., $20-$25. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp., St. Louis, 314-498-6989.

WILLIS: W/ The Vanilla Beans, Thu., Sept. 6, 9 p.m., $7. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226.

YOUNG ANIMALS: W/ Honey and Salt, Biff K’Narly and the Reptilians, Thu., Aug. 9, 7 p.m., $8-$10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

YOUR SMITH: Tue., Oct. 9, 8 p.m., $12-$15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp., St. Louis, 314-498-6989.

YOUTH AND CANVAS: W/ Matt F Basler, Jacob Vi, Sat., Sept. 8, 9 p.m., $7. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226.

THIS WEEK

106.5 THE ARCH PRESENTS THE BOY BAND NIGHT: Sat., July 28, 7 p.m., $12-$15. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

A TRIBUTE TO THE QUEENS OF NEO SOUL 2.0: Sat., July 28, 6 p.m., $20. Backstreet Jazz & Blues, 610 Westport Plaza, Maryland Heights, 314-878-5800.

AFTER WEDNESDAY RELEASE SHOW: W/ Thames, the Astounds, Sun., July 29, 8 p.m., $10. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.

AGENT ORANGE: W/ Fea, Lysergik, Wed., Aug. 1, 8 p.m., $15. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

APEX SHRINE: Sat., July 28, 7 p.m., free. Das Bevo Biergarten, 4749 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-224-5521.

BAD JACKET 9 RELEASE: W/ Motherfather, Even Then, Safety Beach, Sat., July 28, 8 p.m., free.

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

BARE KNUCKLE COMEDY: Sat., July 28, 9 p.m., $5. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226.

BENIGHTED: Sat., July 28, 8 p.m., $14-$16. Sat., July 28, 8 p.m., $14-$16. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

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BY DAN SAVAGE Hey, Dan: I’ve been faithfully reading your column in the Chicago Reader for years, and now I’m reaching out to you about my own problem. I’ve been dating this guy for almost a year. Everything is great, except one thing: He wants me to kick him in the nuts. It really bothers me, and I’m not sure what to do. He’s very serious about it, and he brings it up every single day. It makes me really uncomfortable that this is some sort of fetish of his and I need help taking steps forward.

To Kick Or Not To Kick P.S. I play soccer and I kick hard.

It’s a kink called “ball busting,” TKONTK, and as long as you don’t kick him full force — or even half force — you’re unlikely to do permanent damage. That said, childless guys who are into ball busting are often advised to freeze their sperm just in case. And while it’s not a hugely popular kink, it’s common enough that ball busting porn exists, and ball busting Tumblrs, ball busting blogs, etc. Take it slow at first, particularly if your guy has only fantasized about this and not experienced it.

P.S. A guy who brings up his kink every day deserves to be kicked in the nuts — unless he’s into ball busting, in which case he doesn’t deserve to be kicked in the nuts.

Hey, Dan: My husband and I were married in Toronto, Canada, in 2005, before marriage equality came to the United States. Does the U.S. government recognize our Canadian marriage or do we need to remarry in the U.S.? Can you find out from one of your legal friends?

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“The US government does recognize your marriage,” said Robbie Kaplan, one of my legal friends — and the attorney who represented Edith Windsor before the U.S. Supreme Court and won. In United States v. Windsor, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government was required to recognize legal same-sex marriages, thereby gutting the Defense of Marriage Act. “We did the same thing,” Ka-

plan added. “We were married in Toronto in 2006, and the U.S. recognizes our marriage. No need to get married again here.”

Hey, Dan: I am getting in touch because I thought you might be interested in the following article: “Getting to the Bottom of Pegging.”

For open-minded people who are open to butt play, pegging is a great way to spice things up in the bedroom. But what exactly is pegging and why is it a thing now?

Sex and relationships expert Tami Rose knows how important it is to try new things in the bedroom. She would be able to provide an article explaining what pegging is and tips for your more adventurous readers who want to give it a go. I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

[Redacted] PR Agency Pegging? Never heard of it. Wait — what’s that, Wikipedia? “Pegging is a sexual practice in which a woman performs anal sex on a man by penetrating the man’s anus with a strap-on dildo… The neologism “pegging” was popularized when it became the winning entry in a contest in Dan Savage’s Savage Love sex advice column [in 2001].”

Hey, Dan: I’m in a six-year relationship with a guy you will probably deem DTMFA-worthy but I deem round-up-able to The One. My kids already regarded him as their stepdad before we moved in together about eight months ago. That’s when I learned he’s an addict: He drinks, smokes weed and jerks off to porn for about two hours every day. He has been this way for more than twenty years, and I have zero delusions he will change for me.

Recently he told me he has very little sexual desire for me, that he knows my pussy in and out and it’s boring, but he loves my companionship. How do I deal with this so we can move forward together as an incompatible couple?

Sex Addict Partner A romantic partner who says something as cruel and negating as what this man has said to you, SAP, either wants out of the relationship or is grooming their partner for much worse treatment to come. If he wants out of the relationship, the verbal and emotional abuse will escalate until you

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finally leave him. If he doesn’t want out, the verbal and emotional abuse will escalate a bit more slowly, so that, like the proverbial frog in the pot of boiling water, you don’t realize exactly how bad it’s getting and how much damage it’s doing to you — and your kids.

I know it’s not what you wanted to hear, SAP, but I’m going to say it anyway: DTMFA. Hey, Dan: I’m a competent in-person lover, but I’m the worst at Skype/ FaceTime/WhatsApp sex. I can’t get the angle right, I don’t know what to wear, I feel shy, I don’t know what to say, I can’t get off, I giggle like a fifteen-year-old girl getting her first French kiss under the bleachers. I’m going to be away from my guy for most of the summer and I need to figure this out. Any advice or tips?

Struggle Keeping Yonder Penis Entertained A fifteen-year-old girl may giggle the first time she gets Frenchkissed under the bleachers — or she may not — but a girl who giggles the first time probably isn’t going to be giggling the fiftieth. So just keep at it, try to relax and enjoy yourself, and ask your partner to take the lead, i.e., if you don’t know what to do, ask him to tell you what he’d like you to do, SKYPE — but only follow orders you’re comfortable following.

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Hey, Dan: Do you ever wear panties, Dan? Would you post a picture of yourself in panties online? I think you would look good in panties.

Panties Are Nice To You While I have no particular aversion to wearing panties, PANTY, and while I will not deny the allure of the models at xdress.com, I’ve never worn panties and have no plans to start. As a consequence, I won’t be able to post a picture of myself in panties online to delight you and horrify everyone else.

Hey, Dan: How much sex is too much sex?

Numb Over Numbers “Enough is as good as a feast.”

— Mary Poppins Listen to Dan’s podcast at savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

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