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2007 Stories by James Weber

• Fun for the Rest of Us!

  published December 19, 2007

  Ah, the holidaze is upon us! Everyone, sing: "Oh silver pole, oh silver pole, you shine so bright and sterile! No tinsel to distract my mind... More >>

• Don't Be Quiet on New Year's Eve

  published December 19, 2007

  Concentrate. Think back nearly 360 or so days. How did you welcome the year 2007? Was it inexpensive Champagne in polite, plastic flutes while you... More >>

• No Place Like Homecoming

  published December 12, 2007

  A mere ten days after the Frankenstein version of fogey-punk band the Misfits staggered across the stage of the Roberts Orpheum Theater (416 North... More >>

• Sometimes You Feel Like a Nutcracker

  published December 5, 2007

  For many families, attending a performance of Tchaikovsky's classic fairy-tale ballet, The Nutcracker, is an annual holiday... More >>

• Wreathing for the Stars

  published November 21, 2007

  Ah, the quiet majesty of the holiday wreath! You made them in grammar school. You've peddled them door-to-door to raise funds for your ungrateful... More >>

• Hate People, but Love Gatherings?

  published November 21, 2007

  In 1994, with maxed-out credit cards and a cash flow that came mainly from selling his comic-book collection, Kevin Smith created the zeitgeisty... More >>

• Breadfans, Unite

  published November 14, 2007

  You’ve been through the summer ringer, but now it’s November. Turn your thoughts to the delicious, the divine, the winter feasting.... More >>

• Your Afternoon Cup of Joe

  published November 7, 2007

  Fans of the ear-candy-servin’ Sunday-morning KDHX (88.1 FM) staple “Lotsa A Cappella” are already hip to the indomitable... More >>

• Parts of the South Rise Again

  published October 31, 2007

  Country-lovin’ ladies, has it been months since you last attended a bonafide strippers-'n'-all bachelorette party? Do you enjoy the state of... More >>

• Witches Brew

  published October 10, 2007

  Calling all witchy women and magical men: Polish up your pointy shoes, and starch those pointy hats! Portents and premonitions, auguries and... More >>

• We Believe in a Thing Called Fear

  published October 3, 2007

  Terror! Fear! Horror! When the creature features and slasher flicks just don’t bring the tingles like they used to, thank Beelzebub for the... More >>

• Fabulous Fix at the Fabulous Fox

  published September 26, 2007

  It’s been 25 glorious years since the Fox Theatre in Grand Center (527 North Grand Boulevard) was reborn as the Fabulous Fox. Originally a... More >>

• Hedda’s a Pistol

  published September 12, 2007

  The mark of great art is not flowery prose nor sense-shattering spectacle. When a work communicates its truths to generations 100 years removed,... More >>

• Look at that Piggy in the Mirror

  published September 5, 2007

  Everyone is so damaged, their interpersonal webs so tangled (particularly in the Lou, America's biggest small town), it is astounding that any two... More >>

• Corny Fun

  published August 29, 2007

  Gentle readers, are you intrigued by the unexplained geometric shapes cut into corn fields throughout the English countryside? How about a... More >>

• Large and in Charge

  published August 29, 2007

  News flash: Sumo wrestlers aren’t just for shoving other large, sweaty folks out of a circle you’ve drawn in the middle of a room.... More >>

• Pass Through the Gates

  published August 15, 2007

  In nationally released movies, the student thread runs from Good Will Hunting through Garden State and Napoleon Dynamite. All... More >>

• Get Original

  published August 8, 2007

  Independent theater companies in St. Louis have a history of hovering just beneath the general public radar, churning out quality new work to... More >>

• Bringin’ Him Home

  published August 1, 2007

  Twenty years after it took Broadway by storm, the immensely popular French-turned-English musical Les Misérables finally... More >>

• Bier Hier, Bitte

  published August 1, 2007

  Ladies and gentleman, prepare to celebrate that most treasured of St. Louis establishments, a brewery. The Schlafly Brewery, to be exact; the one... More >>

• What’s Your Rush?

  published July 25, 2007

  Judging by a few quick calculations, you will eat roughly 76,650 meals in your lifetime, give or take. That ain’t a lot, really, so it’s... More >>

• Funny Business

  published July 25, 2007

  In the world of comedic rivalries, few have equaled bad-girl Tonya Harding versus Daddy’s little princess Nancy Kerrigan. Well, hit the deck,... More >>

• Future, Tense

  published June 27, 2007

  The Internet is a big deal. Its omnipresence forces most Homo sapiens to make a choice. They can either flee for the hills to grow beards like... More >>

• B Cool

  published June 27, 2007

  Tonight, lights shine bright on the Boulevard-Saint Louis, the newish shopping spot in Richmond Heights on South Brentwood Boulevard across from... More >>

• Do You Remember Me?

  published June 13, 2007

  Where does a beautiful, rock-singin' lady with a voice that defined acid-rock in the ´60s (not to mention a criminally underrated 1971... More >>