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ROUND 1
On an overcast morning in the backyard of a South City bungalow, amateur-boxing enthusiast Pete Neukirch is giving a lesson in official knockdown procedure. One of...
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"I've gotta be honest." You'll hear this phrase over and over in conversation with Evan Foster, frontman/songwriter for the Boss Martians and earnest music lover. His manner...
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Dinner at JaBoni's Bistro begins in the parking lot. No drive-through, no outdoor seating, but it's in the parking lot where JaBoni's allure first starts to take hold. You're...
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It was only in 1967 that Great Britain struck from its jurisprudence the "common scold," essentially a crime of catty insolence for which the convicted party -- almost always...
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Tired of the new reality show Iraq yet? No matter which side of the bomb 'em/don't bomb 'em argument you're on, the fact remains that it is a very depressing show, and not in...
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Reddish-stone walls surround the audience. The stage is covered with rocks, and a lone wooden swing hangs by sturdy ropes. African music plays. As the lights come up, actress...
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Part of a chain of restaurants fast taking over the nation, our first and only Cheesecake Factory obviously registered as a hit with its debut at the Galleria. What do we take...
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Birgit Spears still isn't sure exactly what she's fighting. More than a year after Congressman Dick Gephardt announced he'd secured funding for a new recreation center in...
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Barely 24 hours after the first shots were fired in the most recent Middle East conflict, Patrick Matthews, bassist for Australian band the Vines, takes a peek outside his...
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Nothing screams springtime Sunday morning like "Maybe I'll have a mimosa!" It's a five-word clean-slate creator, a declaration of independence. With a sip of sparkly citrus...
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Director David Cronenberg has led his loyal fans down some pretty spooky corridors, including the telepathic netherworld of Scanners, the violent sibling rivalry of twin...
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Wednesday, April 2
If you happened to catch last year's Scooby-Doo in Stagefright theatrical show, you know how much fun big-budget live-action kiddie theater based on...
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It's just possible that the most persuasive character in the current Curtain Call Repertory Theatre production of Jekyll & Hyde did not appear onstage. At the opening-night...
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The true St. Louisan knows that pizza should be thin and that Chicago deep dish is a sin. They know provel is the king of cheese and what visitors crave when they leave.
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All the post-9/11 buzz about how the Arch is a potential terrorist target seemed a smidge self-important -- there must be dozens of more prominently located landmarks on the...
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Lying is pretty much de rigueur in rock & roll: Robert Zimmerman, the bourgeois Jew from Minnesota, transformed himself into hobo/poet/Guthrie acolyte Bob Dylan and told...
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A Man Apart. F. Gary Gray. Vin Diesel tries to do Dirty Harry this time around and mostly gets it wrong. As a DEA agent busting a vicious kingpin, Sean Vetter (Diesel) wears a...
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What would happen if you found a bunch of slides from a 1977 McDonald's corporate-marketing meeting and, in a flash of inspiration, turned them into a goofy song? What if you...
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March 21, 2003--though he never knew the precise date, it was the very day Nile Southern had been waiting for longer than he cared to remember. On that day, Southern went into...
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Outdoor dining is something Americans don't avail themselves of nearly enough. Somehow food just tastes better when it's accompanied by the sun shining down and a slow, cool...
