Vol. 25, No. 30
Mind Over Matter
For two decades, psychoanalysts have held fast to their slow, deep exploration of the psyche, reaping only scorn from the science-driven psychiatrists at Washington University. Good thing they didn't listen.
By Jeannette Batz
Letters
Week of July 25, 2001
You're in St. Louis Now
If you thought Irene Smith was strange, you haven't been to City Hall lately
By D.J. Wilson
Is All Animal Life, Excluding Human Beings, Equally Valuable?
By Wm. Stage
Really Strange Bedfellows
With good guys like this, who needs bad guys?
By Ray Hartmann
Core Values
Kindercore expands its boundaries with techno-popsters I Am the World Trade Center
By Matt Harnish
Left for Dead
Schwagstock 10 offers good vibes, friendly faces and Grateful Dead-inspired jams
By Christopher Lawton
Raving Mad
Washington County sheriff's deputies descend on a campground full of electronic-dance enthusiasts, who say their civil rights were trampled
By René Spencer Saller
The Monroes
Friday, July 27; Frederick's Music Lounge
The Mellowfeathers with Brick Bat and the French New Wave
Sunday, July 29; Ramp Riders Skate Park
By Paul Friswold
Crossing to Safety
You're in no danger of getting a bad meal at The Crossing, one of the Midwest's finest restaurants
By Joe Bonwich
Marky Mark and the Monkey Bunch
Despite its derivative plot and frustrating ending, the new Planet of the Apes is deliriously charming fun
By Robert Wilonsky
Nurse Sissi
A tender love story underscores Tom Tykwer's cunning thriller The Princess and the Warrior
By Bill Gallo
Gangster Crap
Made, a wannabe mob comedy, won't be furthering anyone's career
Establishing Shot
The Tivoli Theatre welcomes the inaugural St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase
By Byron Kerman
Sub Pop
Despite its candy-coated allure, SLAM's Pop Impressions illustrates a movement gone sour
By Ivy Schroeder
Identity Card
(Mostly) Harmless Theatre's Fuddy Meers wrestles with identity, communication and trust, and the result is a strange and often funny farce
By Brian Hohlfeld
Afro Show
New Line Theatre shows off its crowning glory in an open-ended run of Hair
It Happens
Ohmigod! Five seasons in, South Park's the funniest show on TV.