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Film
A Very CGI Christmas: This can't be what Charles Dickens had in mind
By Ella Taylor
Published: November 12, 2009
It's not hard to see how the director of Forrest Gump would be thought a good fit to adapt the dearly beloved (and much lampooned) Dickens tale that has survived nearly two...
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Film
Higher Learning: An Education and its star, Carey Mulligan, get good marks
By Scott Foundas
Published: November 12, 2009
The title is a double-entendre in An Education, the film version of British journalist Lynn Barber's memoir about the crash course she received in the "university of life"...
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Stage
Edward the Great: After nearly half a century, Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? still packs a 100-proof punch
By Dennis Brown
Published: November 12, 2009
George and Martha are at it again. As the sparks fly and their lacerating living room boozefest drags on into the wee hours of the morning, one of their two wary party guests...
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Art
Featured Review: Roberley Bell: Inside Out
By Jessica Baran
Published: November 12, 2009
Featured Review: Roberley Bell: Inside Out Bell takes the surplus toy stock that crowds today's craft-store shelves — chartreuse, hot pink and electric blue foam blobs,...
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Stage
Shiver Me Timbers! St. Louis Shakespeare takes to the high seas with Treasure Island
By Dennis Brown
Published: November 12, 2009
Once again the good ship Hispaniola is setting sail for Treasure Island, the accursed isle that was made memorable in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 adventure novel about young...
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Art
St. Louis Art Capsules
Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene
By Jessica Baran
Published: November 12, 2009
Newly Reviewed Roberley Bell: Inside Out Reviewed in this issue. Ongoing American Framing In the three photographic series that make up Jessika Miekeley's first solo...
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Stage
St. Louis Stage Capsules
Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene
By Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold
Published: November 12, 2009
Fiddler on the Roof Director Deanna Jent has crafted a warm and cozy production of the perennial favorite, with the little village of Anatevka — represented by two...
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Feature
There S/he Is! The Miss Gay America Pageant prances into St. Louis — and Unreal drinks it all in like a camel at Hoover Dam
Published: November 4, 2009
Moments before the pageant begins, Unreal feels every last downy hair on our arms come to attention. Here we are in a gilded side hall to the Millennium Hotel's Grand Ballroom...
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Night & Day
Change Is Gonna Come
By Alex Weir
Published: November 4, 2009
Mention "the Heights" to a New Yorker from Brooklyn and she'll think, "Yes: beautiful Brooklyn Heights." Over in Manhattan, the same term would more likely conjure Washington...
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Night & Day
In the Crease
By Paul Friswold
Published: November 4, 2009
The Japanese art of origami seems nothing more than a beautiful diversion, or, depending on your manual dexterity, a frustrating one. But the act of transforming a flat piece...
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Night & Day
A Man Alone
By Mark Dischinger
Published: November 4, 2009
Jonathan Lethem invented the hipster comic-book-loving nerdy smart guy in 1996, long before we had a president wielding a light saber on the White House lawn. The prizewinning...
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Night & Day
Pleasures of the Flesh
By Paul Friswold
Published: November 4, 2009
Chefs Wes Johnson and Brendan Noonan, and bartender Patrick Thomas created Carnivorale, their celebration of meat, with two ideas in mind. The first: The three of them have...
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Night & Day
Animal Tales
By Mark Fischer
Published: November 4, 2009
Learning from your mistakes is an essential skill that most of us acquire the hard way. But this weekend, the Metro Theatre Company provides a crash course that shows us that...
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Night & Day
Dancing Queens and Kings
By Ms. Day
Published: November 4, 2009
Sometimes Ms. Day just gets that feeling, and she simply can't suppress it. No, it's not the urge to get in the car and drive, drive, drive away from it all — though that...
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Night & Day
All Fired Up
By Alison Sieloff
Published: November 4, 2009
Fire brought the caveman out of darkness and helped him develop s'mores. These same flickering flames still serve as a source of warmth, light and campfire treats today, and at...
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Night & Day
The End Is Nigh?
By Nicole Beckert
Published: November 4, 2009
With 2012 on the horizon — the reputed end date of the world according the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, as if you didn't know — doomsday theories abound in...
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Night & Day
Pointe of Power
By Alison Sieloff
Published: November 4, 2009
When you think of dancerly qualities, flexibility, poise and grace are usually at the top of the list. But dancers have to be crazy strong, too, and if power is sexy, then raw...
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Night & Day
A Wicked Good Time
By Alison Sieloff
Published: November 4, 2009
While most of the good people in the world are against villains, we've decided we're for some evildoers, at least the fictional ones. Just think about it: Books and movies...
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Night & Day
X-Marks-the-Spot Factor
By Paul Friswold
Published: November 4, 2009
Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island is a ripping yarn about pirates and buried treasure, and the moral development of young Jim Hawkins. Coming into possession of a...
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Night & Day
What About Bob?
By Paul Friswold
Published: November 4, 2009
Bob is a teenage girl on the run. Hitchhiking her way east, Bob tells her various drivers stories about her family and her boyfriend who's in a band, but something's not right....
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