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2000 Stories by Eddie Silva

• Peanuts Gallery

  published December 27, 2000

  Charles Schulz died, and no death was as notable, in the arts or otherwise, this year. The indelible images he left on the American consciousness... More >>

• Mending Wall

  published December 20, 2000

  In the warmth of the offices of the Forum for Contemporary Art, architect Brad Cloepfil looks a little bored as a woman in those fashionable... More >>

• Director's Cut

  published December 13, 2000

  I was just thinking about you. That is absolutely amazing!" says Beej Nierengarten-Smith, answering a telephone call from the RFT at her... More >>

• Casualties of War

  published December 6, 2000

  On this rainy Saturday afternoon, many families have chosen the Missouri History Museum as a way out of the doldrums of a Thanksgiving weekend. In... More >>

• Film Fatale

  published November 22, 2000

  After the success of the ninth St. Louis International Film Festival, with around 10,000 venturing into, for the most part, unfamiliar celluloid... More >>

• Cinema Paradiso

  published November 15, 2000

  Less isn't more, but it's sometimes better. The St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF), which concluded last weekend, chose the route of... More >>

• Shell-shocked

  published November 8, 2000

  Dedicated in 1996, Turtle Park stands out as one of the most popular works of public sculpture, and uses of public space, in St. Louis. Artist Bob... More >>

• Secret Identity

  published November 1, 2000

  The Aaron Copland Americans know and love is the composer of such popular works as Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, Billy the Kid... More >>

• Facing the Music

  published November 1, 2000

  The fate of the live orchestral experience in the dot-com century continues to be debated, but there are positive signs of its preservation, if... More >>

• Wonder Man

  published October 25, 2000

  Lawrence Weschler offers one on-the-record anecdote of Life with Tina. A staff writer for The New Yorker since the mid-'80s, Weschler came... More >>

• Window Dressing

  published October 18, 2000

  With the Pageant opening this week, Linda Edwards shakes her head when asked whether she's going to expand her artistic ambitions to her husband... More >>

• Nothin' Could Be Fina Than to Be in the Medinah

  published October 11, 2000

  Way back when St. Louis 2004 was seeking to define the city's potential, one of the places on which it fixed its wise-consultants' mark was the... More >>

• Anatomy of Desire

  published October 4, 2000

  She's not unlike anyone working in the cubicle next to yours. She may be a data-entry person (which she is). Attractive, middle-aged, divorced... More >>

• People Persons

  published October 4, 2000

  The artspeak was much in evidence at the unveiling of the People Project a couple of weeks ago in Grand Center. Artists and arts administrators... More >>

• Fighting Chance

  published September 20, 2000

  Girlfight, written and directed by Karyn Kusama, has already generated such a buzz in the movie biz -- it was awarded both the Director's... More >>

• Deaccessioning Beej

  published September 13, 2000

  "I'm no longer going to be a public person," says Beej Nierengarten-Smith. On May 1, her reign as director of Laumeier Sculpture Park comes to an... More >>

• Harsh Light

  published September 13, 2000

  In photographs of the American fiction writer Richard Ford, say in those that grace the jackets of his five novels and two story collections... More >>

• Good Enough for Guv'ment Work

  published September 6, 2000

  The group standing outside Centro Sociale in the early evening is looking a little sheepish. The folks who frequent Centro always look a little... More >>

• The Missionary Position

  published August 30, 2000

  The question of faith, presumably, would not be very appealing subject matter for cinema. An individual's struggle with belief is primarily an... More >>

• Video Killed the Pornography Star

  published August 23, 2000

  The blue movie, or stag film, used to show up on ancient projectors in the basement of the Moose Lodge or the Kiwanis Club on select evenings. The... More >>

• Live to Tell

  published August 16, 2000

  In one photo, a girl turns a cartwheel in a small patch of yard in front of her South St. Louis home. In another, a girl in a pretty dress sits... More >>

• Booknonsense

  published August 16, 2000

  It's been a while since Left Banks Books' Philip Barron has touted the benefits of BookSense.com to customers.... More >>

• Monitor Wizard

  published August 9, 2000

  With recent retrospectives at major museums celebrating the careers of artists for whom video has been a primary medium of exploration -- Nam June... More >>

• Tracking the Deer

  published July 26, 2000

  The Deer What the deer at night consume may be what we thought we needed but can live without. Try to forget... More >>

• Remembrance of Things Past

  published July 19, 2000

  What's a nice former fiber artist like Carol Crouppen doing with technology like this: ominous contraptions such as a high-resolution monitor with... More >>