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...Norwegian heritage, a father of three with closely cropped hair the color of khakis accidentally laundered with a red T shirt. An agriculture expert at the Farmers Union, Watne knows milling so well he can tell you how pizza dough will turn out differently if it's made from bread flour vs. all-purpose flour vs. pizza flour, which I didn't know you could buy. Though Watne is kind enough that I probably could have invited myself over, my own Southern formality met his Scandinavian reserve head on, and so I had none of his pizza...
It’s one of the slickest voices in pop, sliding like honey into each oh-so-deliberately placed consonant. But on Scritti Politti’s first album in seven years, Gartside’s voice is also used to great effect; “White Bread, Black Beer” may be the best record...
With “White Bread, Black Beer,” Gartside has moved from deconstructing the love song to working out how love can tear itself apart—among many, many other things. If this shift makes his thoughts a little muddier (as he puts it, “Tying everything together / so I can’t think it anymore”), it also makes them much richer...
Gartside is not the type to occupy the later years of his career with vain attempts to recreate an instinctive original greatness, as many musicians do; his is the type of music that gets better as he learns things. “White Bread, Black Beer,” masterfully wraps up humor, sex, unease, and stutter-starts of musical brilliance to produce a veiled, intellectual self-portrait of one of pop’s most fascinating thinkers...
...nearby Webster Grove. Her office in downtown St. Louis was unaffected yesterday, but a city transformer gave out and she was sent home. After a hot night without any news of the city's damage, Blakley set out with her laptop this morning. "I first tried St. Louis Bread Company because they had power yesterday morning," she said. "But after the transformer blew, they lost power. I came here and was happy to get the Internet...