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Sometimes Bob Cassilly is hard to understand. He talks fast; at times he mumbles. Then there's what he actually says. When he talks about what his plans are -- though "plans"...
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Ask Compay Segundo about the home of his youth, learn the secret source of 80 years of uninterrupted song. "Siboney is such a lovely town," he says, "with so much fruit, so...
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The first clue to the personality of Brian Menzel, a longtime country-club chef who has just opened the first restaurant of his very own, B. Tomas, came right after we were...
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There's a trio of duets in Duets. The film is set in the world of karaoke singing, but the title really refers to three sets of paired-off actors performing pas de deux to the...
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As The Sporting News' Best Sports City in America for 2000, St. Louis should know something about the civic power of athletics. If the Billikens win a conference championship,...
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Almost Famous is the movie Cameron Crowe always wanted to make--and the movie he tried to keep from making as long as he could. The writer-director insists he didn't want to...
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In photographs of the American fiction writer Richard Ford, say in those that grace the jackets of his five novels and two story collections published over the last...
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Tim Scott
Singer/Songwriter
"That the people who are now suing the tobacco companies once actually believed that old line that cigarettes weren't harmful or habit-forming,...
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Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. is an equal-opportunity campaign donor, and nowhere is that better illustrated than in the brewer's contributions to the two major political parties...
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The weekly "Radar Station" column is intended to be a sort of catchall for St. Louis music news, and we here in the bunker do our best to balance the news-type information...
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Next week we welcome a new invisible face to this page in the person of Melissa Martin, whose reviews will alternate with mine.
Web-savvy foodies will already know Melissa...
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From provocative and stunning to chilling and poignant, the 38th Ann Arbor Film Festival tour encompasses an eclectic mix of content and technique. With running times ranging...
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Architect Eric Mendelsohn was one of the European modernists who brought bold and fascinating new structures to life in the first half of the 20th century. His Einstein Tower,...
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The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis opened its 34th season last weekend with an exceptional production of a new musical, Everything's Ducky. An attractive, talented and...
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"The public education movement has also been an anti-Christian movement. We can change education in America if you put Christian principles in and Christian pedagogy in. In...
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"I'm no longer going to be a public person," says Beej Nierengarten-Smith. On May 1, her reign as director of Laumeier Sculpture Park comes to an end. She's retiring after...
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If you think of alternative country as some narrow, nostalgic, has-been style, a genre that only meant something when three guys from the East Side were playing it in Cicero's...
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In recent years, the fabulous Chilean expatriate director Raoul (sometimes Raul) Ruiz has moved from shoestring-budget features that could qualify as avant-garde to...
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Not only now but in their day, the 19th-century James Gang were models of moral ambiguity. They robbed banks but supported their families; honored the practice of fraternal...
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SPELLBOUND
It's about time Dennis Spellmann was exposed for what he really is ("The Talented Mr. Spellmann," RFT, Sept. 6). His interests have nothing to do with higher...
