We're chilling over the holiday weekend, but then the GO Team kicks it back into gear for a handful of hot July events. 

Don’t miss the classic musical comedy, Anything Goes, at Tent Theatre July 9-12 and 14-20, sponsored by the MSU Department of Theatre and Dance. Enter to win tickets here! Spend your summer night at Tent Theatre and enjoy an evening with friends and family.
 
Mark your calendars for next Friday, July 11, for the summer’s best live music event: GO Music Awards: The Encore Show sponsored by Q102 and GO Magazine. Cartoons (GMA Winner Best Live Music Venue), will be hosting the party featuring live music by Hotbox (GMA Winner Best Band) and Vinyl Richy (GMA Winner Best DJ). Come party on the patio with burgers and brats! (Free BBQ, $5 cover charge) Hurry and enter to win tickets to the party. We will be drawing a few lucky winners on Tuesday, July 8th.
 
Finally, 417 Magazine’s first-ever 10 Most-Beautiful Women competition is finally over and the results are in. After 65,577 votes, we have our 10 Most-Beautiful, who will be revealed in the September 2008 issue of 417 Magazine. (Yes—you have to wait!) However, you can still meet the 20 finalists and learn what makes them beautiful!

Gina DeGenova, marketing coordiantor
 
 

It's been a while since we did one of these. Two things you should know.

• I haven't seen but two movies in the theater for the entirety 2008, so far missing out on a couple of flicks I was very excited about, including No Country For Old Men and Indiana Jones. 

• I am not one of those people totally enamored with Angelina Jolie. She's a comely lass, but I've seen less drooling carrying a pan of bacon through a shelter for undernourished dogs.

Then why, in God's name, would I choose a beautiful Sunday evening to go see Wanted? Well, some good friends invited me and I'm susceptible to peer pressure. Find out what I think of slo-mo bullets, Secret Societies and the such, after the jump.

What to read while speculating just how much extra they paid Angelina for that full-on butt shot in Wanted.

• Christine Daues is preggers again. Congrats! Maybe she'll celebrate by once again taking the Cardinals on-field gig in the dead of summer. And maybe not. Chatter

• Well Fed Head, harbinger of downtown Fremont Center culture. Well Fed Head

• Tokyo Drift Barbie. The Interwebs, courtesy of Complaint Department

Matt Lemmon, editor 

Ask around—we think you'll find that this weekend is the one in which everyone charges his or her batteries, kickin' it at home or with the fam in anticipation of a (in some cases) four-day holiday weekend that will feature much sun and golden-clearish liquid.

That said, there are still things to do, and it is the Set List's job to make you aware of them. So, without further ado, we present the best of the weekend of June 27-29. Don't say we didn't do anything for you. 

The Tour of Missouri is (officially) returning to Springfield on Tuesday, September 9. The Queen City will once again host the second stage of the statewide* cycling competition, which will begin in Clinton and end at the intersection of Trafficway and Kimbrough, near the Mediacom Ice Park.

The Stage 2 features a few changes—instead of following 160 through Willard, the race will cut through the town and take Greene County AB south. It will again enter Springfield on Division Street, this time bypassing Commercial Street (due to streetscape work, the PR says) and heading south on Jefferson for a finishing circuit around downtown.

Overall, the race is not much different from last year's inaugural Tour. The biggest change is the starting point—St. Joseph. Riders will go from St. Joe to Kansas City on Day 1, then pick up the next stage in Clinton.

Branson will once again host an individual time trial in Stage 3. The race also passes through Lebanon, Rolla, St. James, Jefferson City, Hermann, St. Charles and St. Louis on the way to its finish on Sunday, September 14. 

* Unless you live in the north or southeast sections of the state. 

Matt Lemmon, editor 

If you're looking for a different sort of Wednesday night entertainment, there's some fashion-walking going on tonight on South Glenstone.

Pure Downtown Boutique and Shae Belle will be showing off their newest (summer, we presume?) fashions at Easy's Cajun Restaurant (1710 S. Glenstone Ave.), starting a 8 p.m. It's part of Easy's Wednesday night VOODOO events. The doors open (well, sort of—the show is outside in the parking lot) at 8 p.m. Admission is free betwen 8 to 9, and $5 after 9 p.m. There will be drink specials on beer and wells, as well as spins from DJ Lush and TJ.

Matt Lemmon, editor 

Catch the GO Team tonight at the Texas League All-Star Game at Hammons Field. Come early and watch the crowd-favorite Home Run Derby at 6 p.m. The Liverpool Legends will also perform prior to the game, which begins at 7:10 p.m. After the game, stick around for the fireworks display, as well as a party on the patio featuring live music from Hot Switch.  

You may remember in April, 2008 GO hosted the GO Music Awards at Rock’n Ribs. Now GO is throwing an encore GMA party on Friday, July 11 where a couple of the top vote-getters, plus our judges' pick for Best Band, will come together for the summer’s best live music event, hosted by GO and Q102. Join us at Cartoons (GMA Winner Best Live Music Venue), featuring live music by Hotbox (GMA Winner Best Band) plus music by DJ Vinyl Richie (GMA Winner Best DJ). Doors open at 7 p.m. with a free BBQ on the patio! Enter to win tickets to the party. And ladies, don’t miss out on the Hotbox panties (seriously check them out).

Finally, this is the last week to cast your vote for 417 Magazine's 10 Most Beautiful Women in 417-land. We will finalize the final 10 Monday, June 30th. Make sure you check out the 10 winners in the September 417 Magazine issue.

Did we snap your pic at last week’s GOnection at Trolley’s? Click here to find out.

We don't usually truck with spam or e-mail craziness, but since this came to us (well, actually sister mag 417 Magazine) via 417mag.com's manual, online "submit a story idea" form, we don't mind sharing.

What's it about? Pick the most mind-boggling topic you can possibly think of, add some famous clevage, a long-retired German head of state and a threat of FBI inquiry. Then you might be scratching the surface. Maybe.

Read the zaniness, after the jump. 

Former staff writer Evan Fisk, the lone, unpaid member in GO Magazine's West Coast bureau (and literally, we make him work out of a smallish chest of drawers), tells us Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin's "Modern Mystery," off the new album, Pershing, is getting some pretty significant spinnage on LA's top indie rock station.

Says Evan:

"They're playing SSLYBY's "Modern Mystery" on the biggest and best Indie Rock station in L.A., Indie 103.1. (Rolling Stone magazine named Indie 103.1 the best station in the country last year. You can listen to it under the "Alternative" tab on your iTunes radio list.)

The DJ introduced it by saying 'there are a lot of weird indie band names out there, but this one is probably the weirdest...' Then something about how critics all love them and the new album is really good."

Readers: Anytime you hear of a local band getting out-of-area buzz, do let us know about it.

Matt Lemmon, editor 

What to read while lamenting the fact that you refused to pony up for those George Carlin tickets when he came to Hammons Hall last year.

• Lots of new bits from Ron Davis over at Chatter (just in time to make our Gripe look silly). Anywho, this is the best of the bunch. Chatter

• Fat Jack's take on The Incredible Hulk. Fat Jack's Erratic Rants 

• We don't hit it often enough, but the Complaints Department is a funny, funny blog. Here's a gem. Complaints Department 

Matt Lemmon, editor 

The Set List apologizes profusely for the lack of a Friday afternoon post. The Set List's grandma passed and, well, The Set List needed a mental health day and didn't make the proper prior Set List plans.

We hope you'll forgive us, and enjoy this abbreviated weekend planner.

If you are a virgin GOnectioner, it’s your turn to join the GO Team Thursday, June 19th,  5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Trolley’s Downtown Bar & Grille (107 Park Central Square).  GOnection is your ticket to fresh networking with Springfield’s most fun movers and shakers. Don’t worry, it’s completely free (and yes, some complimentary apps will be served). GO would like to thank Kum & Go and Miller Chill (guys get excited; the Miller Chill girls will be present) for sponsoring this month’s GOnection—you can bet there'll be some prize giveaways, and with Kum & Go on board, that might just mean FREE GAS. But you'll have to show up to see for sure. Remember: GOnection is held the 3rd Thursday of every month.  Hope to see you there!

Also, this is the final weekend to see Cyrano de Bergerac at MSU’s Tent Theatre. Today through June 21 you can see the French classic story performed by MSU’s Department of Theatre and Dance. Opening night of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown is next Wednesday and will show through June 20, and again June 30-July 3rd. Don’t forget to check out GO’s Contest page and enter to win tickets for the Saturday, June 28 show.

Finally, GO is giving away tickets to Seussical: The Musical at Landers Theatre. Visit our contest page and enter to win tickets (are you feeling lucky?). Seussical: The Musical will be showing June 19-22 and June 26-29th at at Lander Theatre (see springfieldlittletheatre.org for specific showtimes). Tickets are $15-$25.

An e-mail from friend of the magazine James Johnson confirmed what we'd feared for a while: Paradise Bar & Grill, the reformed gentlemen's club-turned-bar/restaurant on Commercial Street, is no more.

But the good news is, James is still in the biz. Yeseterday, Mama Rose's restaurant opened at 1533 W. Battlefield (near Kansas Expressway). James promises "great country cookin'", which, we suspect, will please his gregarious, home-spun nature much more than slinging pitchers to C-Street stragglers and college kids.

So check it out! Springfield needs some (non Heritage Cafeteria) sould food, and this may just be it!

Matt Lemmon, editor

What to read while plucking chunks of hail out of your forehead.

• Dishing on bride-friendly ice creams. Ozarks Buff Brides

• The Front Porch and Randy Bacon, tag-teaming Rock the Vote? Sweet. The Core Blog

• Holy crap! A new post at The 2 Dollar Bill. The 2 Dollar Bill 

Matt Lemmon, editor 

So think it'll rain?

Even as The Set List tries to type this, and finally turn its thoughts to the weekend, a family of ducks is knocking on our door, seeking refuge for the weekend. We have nothing to give them but Miller Lite and a toilet bowl to swim in (Get off the can, Tony!), but we'll do our best.

Thankfully, the weather looks better for Saturday and Sunday, and there's enough to do to make us forget rainy Friday—at least until those ducks have made a mess of the office by Monday morning.