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Feature
Where Do Wolf Babies Come From?
Sometimes Mother Nature can use a little human intervention
By Ben Westhoff
Published: April 20, 2005
Cheryl Asa wants to offer a disclaimer. She is going to be talking solely about animal sex tonight, and any parallels to the human variety must be drawn at one's own risk. That...
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Music
Sympathy for the Doll
Devil Doll's Colleen Duffy wants you to remember when rock was sexy
By Jordan Harper
Published: April 20, 2005
Let's not ignore the elephant in the room, okay? Take another long look at that photo. You already checked it out, let out a wolf whistle or a sigh, and finally moved your eyes...
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Cafe
Viva Honduras
Los Catrachos is a happy, happy mess
By Rose Martelli
Published: April 20, 2005
Sour cream has never perplexed me like it does at Los Catrachos. On my first visit to this Honduran restaurant -- a ramshackle, homey hovel that opened in January along...
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Film
Upset Special
Game of Their Lives relives the victory America forgot
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: April 20, 2005
The Game of Their Lives is the second movie in the past three years with that title, and also the second about a major soccer upset during the World Cup. The first was a...
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Night & Day
Here Comes the Ocean
Yo La Tengo creates "The Sounds of Science" at Webster University
By Paul Friswold
Published: April 20, 2005
As winter releases its grip on the Midwest and the gray days give way to abundant sun, flowers spring from the ground and leaves burst forth from once-denuded branches. And...
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Art
Current Shows
Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene
Published: April 20, 2005
Jeff Aeling: Landscape Paintings, and works by Tom Reed and Cheryl Wassenaar Aeling's landscapes are classical, the kind you learn about in art-history class. Superbly...
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News Real
Men Aren't from Venus
And they're still not welcome at the annual art show
By Ben Westhoff
Published: April 20, 2005
This year's Venus Envy art exhibition featured photos of a woman boxing with a mannequin, a decorated outhouse and models wearing a hand-blown glass brassiere. The undergarment...
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B-Sides
Gone, Daddy, Gone
We say goodbye to a rock & roll forefather, talk sports with Mr. Lif and get religion at the new Gearbox
By Jordan Harper, Roy Kasten and Jess Minnen
Published: April 20, 2005
It's late December 1953. Johnnie Johnson's saxophone player is sick and can't make the biggest money gig of the year: New Year's Eve at the Cosmopolitan Club in East St. Louis....
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Drink of the Week
The Frazertini
Frazer's Traveling Brown Bag, 1811 Pestalozzi Street; 314-773-8646
By Randall Roberts
Published: April 20, 2005
What is the bird that stays up all night? It's louder than the other birds, but maybe that's because it's the only insomniac species in Benton Park. While the sparrows and...
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Film
Bend It Like Macklind
In this Game, St. Louis gets top billing
By Mike Seely
Published: April 20, 2005
Game of Their Lives screenwriter Angelo Pizzo dubs soccer "the world's most democratic sport" in this surprisingly satisfying retelling of the biggest upset in World Cup...
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Night & Day
This Week's Day-by-Day Picks
Week of April 20, 2005
Published: April 20, 2005
Wednesday, April 20 As Ms. Day is writing this, she is enjoying some of Missouri's finest -- Missouri's finest wine, that is. So all the wine snobs out there are snickering...
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Stage
This Old Man
A musical in ASL? Sign us up!
By Dennis Brown
Published: April 20, 2005
Early in Big River, Huckleberry Finn stands alone on the Fox Theatre stage and quietly sings, "I have lived in the darkness for so long/I am waitin' for the light to shine."...
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News Real
Soldiers of Misfortune
Veterans wait (and wait) for their GI Bill benefits
By Malcolm Gay
Published: April 20, 2005
United States Navy veteran Jose Bellow's education has been anything but easy. A first-year nursing student at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Bellow planned on attending...
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Radar Station
And the Smooth Shall Become Rough...
Smooth jazz fans want answers. We've got 'em.
By Jordan Harper
Published: April 20, 2005
There are certain types of music fans you don't want to tussle with. Death-metal heads. Gangsta-rap aficionados. Irish-drinking-song bellowers. Smooth jazz listeners. OK, last...
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Film
Chow Time
Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle breaks all the rules
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: April 20, 2005
"No more soccer!" declares small-time thug Sing (writer-director-star Stephen Chow) as he vigorously stomps on a child's ball. In the context of Kung Fu Hustle, it's a pathetic...
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Night & Day
Dart Art
Like drinking beer and throwing things? You'll love Blueberry Hill's 33rd annual Open Darts Tournament.
By Alison Sieloff
Published: April 20, 2005
Sadly, your love life just isn't that great. Everyone seems to be married or lame or otherwise incapable of making you happy, and as a result of all this love lost, your...
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Stage
Screw Ball
HotCity gets intimately acquainted with Adult Entertainment
By Dennis Brown
Published: April 20, 2005
What a stupendous theater week this is! Not only is the enthralling Big River on view at the Fox, but after a five-month hiatus following its knockout inaugural production of...
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Unreal
If Billboards Could Talk
We’ve got the inaugural edition of If Billboards Could Talk, advice for brides-to-be and some insight about what the future holds for the SLPD's forensics lab. Plus, our blogger of the week has a sweet side.
Published: April 20, 2005
The inaugural installment of our occasional feature If Billboards Could Talk asks the question: What might the African-American nurse be whispering in the honky old crone's ear...
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Critics' Picks
Cephalic Carnage
Thursday, April 21; the Hi-Pointe (1001 McCausland Avenue)
By Guy Gray
Published: April 20, 2005
Relapse Records labelmate The Dillinger Escape Plan gets all the attention (including the merit we give it below) for putting out mind-bendingly technical metal, but it's...
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Film
Head in the Sand
Dust to Glory honors the Baja 1000, where everybody's a legend
By Bill Gallo
Published: April 20, 2005
If nothing else, give Dana Brown credit for enthusiasm. A documentary filmmaker in name only, he is really the camera- and microphone-equipped president of several booster...
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