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For the past few years, the vast second floor above the former Globe Variety Store at Cherokee Street and Ohio Avenue has been a hive of activity — a jungle of color and...
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Summer in St. Louis is not for wussies. For starters there's the suffocating heat and humidity, which (for the uninitiated) can feel like you're being waterboarded — in...
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You know what's really sad?
"Most St. Louisans know more about the Lake of the Ozarks than they do about the great rivers in their own back yard," muses Rich Meyer, a...
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As you're considering which festivals to attend in St. Louis this time of year, it's easy to romanticize the experience — tasty eats, danceable jams, sudsy brews —...
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Don't leave shore without your Quimby's Cruising Guide. Published right here in St. Louis, this annual boater's bible offers a complete listing of inland waterway marinas...
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Romanticize a St. Louis summer all you want. There's always a flip side to the coin. The crowd roars at Busch Stadium — another one in the win column! — but then...
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Summer float trips are a time-honored tradition here in Missouri — a chance to become one with nature or unleash your inner redneck, depending on your prerogative. But...
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While 500-gram cakes may pack a lot more punch than their predecessors, Greg Carrell, Missouri's assistant state fire marshal, notes that these modern-day fireworks are...
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Nothing can help you survive summer in the city quite like your dog. He trots next to you, adorable and fearless, all while making you seem more athletic, better-looking and...
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Yeah, summer in St. Louis is sticky and hot. But here's the deal: Were it not for the nearly triple-digit heat and humidity, would you ever fully appreciate St. Louis' great...
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They're big. They're bad. And since they won federal approval for consumer use in 1998, they've transformed the fireworks industry.
They're 500-gram "cakes," also known as...
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Dear Mexican: I was wondering why Mexicans in Chicago are meaner than Mexicans in California? I love my Mexican brothers and sisters in California (I'm from Cali) but they are...
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Can St. Louis support a roots-music event on the scale of New Orleans' famed Jazz & Heritage Festival? Mike Kociela intends to find out.
Kociela is the head of Entertainment...
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Like Charles Mingus and Scott LaFaro before him, Stanley Clarke helped bring bass to the forefront of jazz ensembles instead of hiding the instrument in the shadow of the drum...
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As one of the pioneering groups of the roots-reggae movement, Jamaica's Mighty Diamonds has been churning out timeless vocal classics for more than the past four decades....
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It would be easy to crack an off-color, juvenile joke relating to the fact that an organization that calls itself "Big Muddy" is holding a chili cook-off, but we're far too...
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Call it the Sharon Jones effect: Funk bands are no longer able to make waves based solely on instrumental prowess and stone-cold groovesmanship — they must have a vocal...
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If you're asking just how long Best Coast can ride songs of fun, sun, love and the comedowns that follow such sugar highs, you're asking the wrong question. The right question...
