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There are mysteries in southeast Missouri that have drawn state geologist David Hoffman here time and again. What makes this place different, sets it apart from the rest of...
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Not since the heady days of the mid to late-'80s has the concept of Boy Pop Group (TM and © Maurice Starr) been so prevalent. Recognizing that the Spice Girls were just...
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I have two separate brains. Because CAT scans reveal only a single lump of gray matter within the Posey-Smith skull, science is reluctant to give credence to my dual-brain...
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Nobody is innocent in America, but there is one segment of the population that seems doggedly determined to deny its own ignorance, ugliness and violence. So hands up now -- ...
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What is it about boxing that either repels or draws us so fiercely? It is the same thing, really, to quote from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome: "Two men enter -- one man...
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The afternoon before the unveiling of the Magic Carpet Mosaic in front of the firehouse at the corner of Salisbury and Blair in the neighborhood known as Hyde Park -- which...
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On the final day of his life, the relatives of 17-year-old Tyrone McCollough Jr. recorded his image on videotape as he lay motionless in a hospital bed, tubes in his mouth and...
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Dan "The Automator" Nakamura laughs when he recalls how his DJ career ended before it really began. The memory's probably funnier now than it was then, especially given that...
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I sincerely hope that Jodie Foster gets a chance to relax and unwind this holiday season, because the lady has obviously worked like a horse to instill her latest role with...
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Frank Lloyd Wright -- the name itself has become synonymous with American architecture. No other architect commands such instant name recognition. He is to architecture what...
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An entire academic/literary canon has emerged in the past 20 years that's solely designed to debunk, deconstruct or detonate archetypal fairytales (or, rather, "folklore," as...
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Thousands of British telly viewers recently learned a great deal more about Missouri's warm-and-fuzzy down-home culture than the state Department of Tourism probably wanted...
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While all of us trendies move from genre to genre lapping up the current craze with the attention span of a litter of kittens, the St. Louis blues scene keeps chugging along,...
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It's too tempting to resist. You see, there's a secret about Stuart Little that the fine folks at Sony don't want to blow. It's not that each one of the half-million...
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Every life-of-Christ play preaches to the choir. Whether conventional, pious and sentimental (for Christians and their fellow travelers) or satiric and debunking (for a...
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It is not my custom to judge others' sexual orientations and practices, and I've never been accused of being a prude. But I think I've found a place to draw a line in the...
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The media event that was staged at Blueberry Hill last Tuesday resulted in few revelations that we haven't been reporting for the past eight months -- that Joe Edwards and...
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If there's anything that could make me believe in a cruel and vengeful God (or in the existence of the Dark Prince himself), it's the incredible success of...
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Ann Lemons Pollack
Food Writer
"Self-important maître d's, condescending servers and both Missouri U.S. senators."
Don Hary
Laborer
"Whoever cut down that KKK...
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If you're at a loss as to where to hear great progressive electronic music on a Saturday night, and don't feel like going to the Washington Avenue meat market (whose two big...
