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Night & Day
This Week
Highlights from RFT's "Calendar"
Published: December 16, 1998
Wednesday/16 The Ray Brown Trio performs at Jazz at the Bistro, a series of jazz concerts in Grand Center. (see Concerts) Pieces of 8, St. Louis' premier a cappella...
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Stage
Light Show
By Harry Weber
Published: December 16, 1998
AN EVENING ON THE LIGHTER SIDE Mid America Dance Company Although Mid America Dance Company's vast repertory certainly contains serious dances, I'd say that most of us go...
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Feature
Second-Class Mail
By Diane Carson
Published: December 16, 1998
YOU'VE GOT MAIL Co-written and directed by Nora Ephron Conceived and perfectly timed for the holiday season, You've Got Mail boasts a formidable pedigree. It's an...
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Music
Sound Checks
By Randall Roberts
Published: December 16, 1998
Number One Cup with Ring, Cicada and Glory for Champions Thursday, Dec. 17; Cicero's These days Chicago is teeming with strange, clever guitar-pop bands, Number One Cup...
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Feature
Terminal Illness
Twenty minutes from downtown, the $300 million MidAmerica Airport is ready and waiting for business -- any business. Trouble is, Lambert is killing its chances of attracting commercial traffic.
By Melinda Roth
Published: December 16, 1998
Driving east on Interstate 64 from downtown St. Louis, there's a sudden drop in traffic just past the empty factories and stockyards bordering East St. Louis. Beyond that lie...
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Music
Local Time
By Thomas Crone and Randall Roberts
Published: December 16, 1998
RETRO MANIA: Folks may remember David Simon as a skinny skate kid playing the bass for Blank Space, a group carved out under the twin influences of punk rock and P-funk. Around...
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Feature
Airworthy
By Melinda Roth
Published: December 16, 1998
Lest you think MidAmerica has been a complete waste of taxpayers' dollars, St. Clair County officials would like to point to a few benefits already accrued. In 1994-95,...
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Music
Exalted Vaults
By Anna Giuliani
Published: December 16, 1998
"There's nothing ... nothing," says Tim Warren, president of Germany-based Crypt Records, lamenting the absence of good music. "There was this one good record I heard from a...
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News Real
Dan Deal
KTRS starts a fresh assault on morning ratings leader KMOX by adding one of its already existing assets to the airwaves -- Dan Dierdorf
By Richard Byrne
Published: December 16, 1998
The call letters of KTRS (550 AM) -- taken individually -- might serve as a short history of the station since its inception in early spring of 1996, when KTRS general manager...
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Music
Chesnutt Roasting
By Randall Roberts
Published: December 16, 1998
A few years ago, browsing through a junk shop, I came upon a cardboard box full of photographs, a few hundred of them, mainly brown-and-gold or black-and-white, stretching back...
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News Real
News Real
By Jeannette Batz, Morris Graham and D.J. Wilson
Published: December 16, 1998
RUDOLPH IN LUCK: Town & Country's aldermen have weathered the warring stats, dire warnings and good intentions of their citizenry to reach a clear consensus on the...
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News Real
With a Little Help From the Bank
South Side National Bank antes up $4 million for home loans for low- to moderate-income families.
By D.J. Wilson
Published: December 16, 1998
The "Jeremiah Project" that has been expanded in South St. Louis is about bricks and mortar, but Denise McDuffie knows that the side effects extend beyond providing affordable...
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News Real
Roland Alphonso: 1931-1998
By Richard Byrne
Published: December 16, 1998
When a man who helped create a popular genre of music that still bears fruit in different forms dies, one would expect a bigger fanfare. In this case, the music is ska -- the...
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Columns
Barr None
By Richard Byrne
Published: December 16, 1998
If an impeachment-crazed Georgia congressman falls in with a group of loopy racists in the middle of ousting the president, does the news make a sound? The decision by Rep....
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Columns
Future Imperfect
By Jake McCarthy
Published: December 16, 1998
The most recent outburst of megamergers in the corporate world, followed as usual by layoffs to "improve the bottom line," seems to run counter to the rosy picture we are given...
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Columns
Unwise Men
By Wm. Stage
Published: December 16, 1998
What is it about Belleville? Last year, we heard the droll news bite regarding James Dowdy, who had an unusual fascination with socks. He had to have them, even if it meant...
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Columns
Fish Gotta Swim, Politicians Gotta Lie
By Ray Hartmann
Published: December 16, 1998
Well, of course Bill Clinton lied. First he lied about sex. Then he lied about lying about sex. Now he's refusing to admit either that he lied or that he lied about lying,...
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Sports
Net Return
By Thomas Crone
Published: December 16, 1998
When the St. Charles-based River City Basketball Club (RCBC) unexpectedly shifted its allegiance from the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) to the fledgling...
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Blowback
Letters to the Editor
Published: December 16, 1998
INSURANCE ADJUSTMENT To the Editor: I am writing in regard to Anne C. Young's response to the articles "Exclusion No. 39" (RFT, Nov. 11) and "You're in Grabby Hands"...
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Columns
News of the Weird
By Chuck Shepherd
Published: December 16, 1998
* The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (Alberta, Canada) announced in November that this year's single permit to hunt an Alberta bighorn sheep was won by Sherwin Scott of Phoenix...
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