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Night & Day
Highlights from RFT's "Calendar"
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
By Harry Weber
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
By Diane Carson
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
By Randall Roberts
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
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
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
By Thomas Crone and Randall Roberts
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
By Melinda Roth
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
By Anna Giuliani
"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
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
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
By Randall Roberts
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
By Jeannette Batz, Morris Graham and D.J. Wilson
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
South Side National Bank antes up $4 million for home loans for low- to moderate-income families.
By D.J. Wilson
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
By Richard Byrne
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
By Richard Byrne
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
By Jake McCarthy
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
By Wm. Stage
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
By Ray Hartmann
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
By Thomas Crone
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
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
By Chuck Shepherd
* 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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