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2008 Stories by James Weber

• Bulbs of Passion

  published December 24, 2008

  Each holiday season, the legendary “Gang of Grandpas” gussy up Rock Spring Park (College Avenue and Rock Springs Drive, Alton, Illinois)... More >>

• Holi-Daze

  published December 17, 2008

  If the classic film A Christmas Story has taught the world anything, it is that the holiday season is filled with sights and pickle-ish... More >>

• Don't Hide Your Love Away!

  published October 15, 2008

  Hot on the Beatle-boot heels of such mainstream successes as the 2007 film Across the Universe and the Cirque du Soleil production... More >>

• Listen Up

  published October 1, 2008

  From the young Get Born poetry folks to the crafty vets at the River Styx readings, this town teems with spoken- and written-word art. Now,... More >>

• The Art of the Fake

  published July 16, 2008

  The classic form of the “rock & roll show flyer" has been, like most things in this Age of the Interwebs, digitized, pixelated and then... More >>

• The Twist of It

  published May 28, 2008

  Who would've thought that millions of colorful, thin latex tubes would bring the world together? Washington University alumni filmmakers Sara... More >>

• Thursday, Blood Thursday

  published May 14, 2008

  Hot on the combat-booted heels of January's kill-'em-all Rambo, select area theaters host a one-night-only, deluxe screening of the... More >>

• Making an Empire

  published May 14, 2008

  Director David Lynch once constructed a human head from turkey and cheese then photographed its consumption by ants. Want to peer into the... More >>

• Career Destroyer

  published April 23, 2008

  Once again, the Magic Smoking Monkey Theatre resurrects a classic stinker of a film when it presents the stage version of KISS Meets the... More >>

• Mountain Time

  published March 26, 2008

  Shortly after singer-songwriter John Denver's small plane fell out of the sky and ended his life, something unexpected began to happen: His... More >>

• Murphy Is Law

  published February 27, 2008

  Serve the public trust, protect the innocent, uphold the law and blow some crap up, Murphy! RoboCop quite plainly rules. Even... More >>

• Get Felt Up

  published February 6, 2008

  While a dozen lumps of felt fashioned into anthropomorphic monsters who sing helpful songs about life may sound like a kids' play, the Tony... More >>

• Oliver!

  published February 6, 2008

  British citizen John Oliver has a passport that states his profession as "comedian," and he's spent several years entertaining the prickly... More >>

• Hey, Look; Secret Garden.

  published January 30, 2008

  The deep and magical universe of flora may house many delights, but no other family matches the alien beauty of Orchidaceae. Playing off the... More >>

• Money Hubble

  published January 16, 2008

  Astrophysicist Lyman Spitzer's idea for an extra-terrestrial telescope stationed outside Earth's pesky ultraviolet and infrared light-sucking... More >>