Vol. 25, No. 35
Following the Melons
Angel Castro used to be one of the thousands of migrant workers who pass through Missouri every summer. Now he's trying to interrupt their kids' journey.
By Jeannette Batz
Fly Away Home
Henry Marganski's pigeons fly the coop all the time. Some race back, and some don't.
By Wm. Stage
Have You Ever Sued Anyone or Been the Target of a Lawsuit?
Week of August 29, 2001
Blooper Max
Another security breach surfaces at Illinois' superexpensive supermaximum prison
By Bruce Rushton
Letters
Beat the Casinos? Not Yet.
As always, gambling is a numbers game
By Ray Hartmann
Spin Cycle
spinART proves that little labels aren't necessarily doomed
By Roy Kasten
One Size Fits All
Roni Size is dedicated to moving forward, boundaries be damned
By Michael Roberts
Tune Town
St. Louis welcomes three acts you won't want to miss
By René Spencer Saller
Big Muddy Blues Festival
Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 1 and 2; Laclede's Landing
By Terry Perkins
Everton Blender
Saturday, Sept. 1; Galaxy
Washington Avenue Beat Festival 4
Sunday, Sept. 2; Lo, Rue 13, Tangerine, Velvet and Galaxy
By Jay A. Babcock
Shannon Wright
Dyed in the Wool (Quarterstick)
By John Darnielle
Arling & Cameron
We Are A&C (Emperor Norton)
Detroit Cobras
Life Love and Leaving (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
By Jon Varner
Beauty Triumphs
You can get more than makeup at Neiman Marcus
By Melissa Martin
O, Brother, When Art Thou?
Tim Blake Nelson's new Othello seems to be a man out of time
By Luke Y. Thompson
Dirty Work
A tale of prison gardeners is this summer's sweetest feel-good comedy
By Jean Oppenheimer
Blood Brother
As fatalistic and deadpan as ever, Takeshi Kitano brings his trademark style to America
By Andy Klein
Scooby's Doobies
Cartoon Network sets a snare for grownups in the form of a new programming block
By Byron Kerman
Modern Primitives
A future-world reading of Macbeth by St. Louis Shakespeare recontextualizes a classic
By Brian Hohlfeld
American Beauty
Characters & Company's production of a Broadway near-miss dissects the American fixation on beauty pageants
By Dennis Brown
Back to School
Judd Apatow's Freaks and Geeks grow up, more or less, and move to a dorm
By Robert Wilonsky
Oh Koi!
St. Louis gets an Eastern exposure at the Missouri Botanical Garden's Japanese Festival
