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1. Feature

   Unreal News Challenge 2007

   Week of December 27, 2007

   By Unreal

   Published: December 26, 2007

   Can you believe it? We're about to give the heave-ho to 2007, a year St. Louis marked with child abductions, soaring venereal-disease rates and several scandals involving local...

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   Hot for Teaching

   By Nicole Beckert

   Published: December 26, 2007

   The world wants to know: How does he do it? In his book Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire, Rafe Esquith reveals the methods and madness of room 56 at Hobart Boulevard Elementary...

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   It Has Bopped to the Top

   By Mark Fischer

   Published: December 26, 2007

   In the history of made-for-TV movies, not even Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell or all three Amy Fischer docudramas combined can touch the firepower of High School Musical. With a...

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   Down Goes Monk

   By Paul Friswold

   Published: December 26, 2007

   The law of entropy is unforgiving: Everything succumbs to it. But people have a tendency to speed up that natural process, sometimes unwittingly. Monks Mound, the largest...

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   Out of Place

   By Paul Friswold

   Published: December 26, 2007

   In addition to being one of the most peaceful libraries around, the University City Public Library (6701 Delmar Boulevard, University City; 314-727-3150) also presents more...

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   All-Media Matters

   By Jeanette Kozlowski

   Published: December 26, 2007

   At the opening reception for the Metzger Memorial All Media Exhibition on Sunday, December 16, the St. Louis Artists' Guild distributed a total of $10,000 in cash and prizes to...

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   Boyz n the Theater

   By Brooke Foster

   Published: December 26, 2007

   Blaxploitation is problematic. Although many films from the genre were written and directed by African Americans, the movies tend to play up stereotypes and play down real...

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   New Year, New Rivalry

   By Alison Sieloff

   Published: December 26, 2007

   Any St. Louisan who breathes the hoppy air here and drinks the city's muddy water knows about our sports teams' rivalries, many of which are with Chicago organizations. There's...

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   Art with Heart

   By Brooke Foster

   Published: December 26, 2007

   Kids' artistic urges are strong. Given the chance, they'll apply colored markers to absolutely anything: walls, vintage books, a particularly low-key dog. If you want to...

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    And Fleetwood Mac's Nowhere in Sight

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: December 26, 2007

    Imagine a dinner party where the guests are wealthy people of no small renown. The hosts are the deputy mayor of New York and his wife — but she's missing, and he's...

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    Snowflake Patrol

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: December 26, 2007

    Everyone spent time during his or her formative years cutting out snowflakes and pasting them onto construction paper. Maybe one of your parents taught you how to do this, or...

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    Still Trotting After All These Years

    By Nicole Beckert

    Published: December 26, 2007

    Continuing their perpetual barnstorming tour of the world, the Harlem Globetrotters swing by the Scottrade Center (South 14th Street and Clark Avenue) at 7 p.m. this evening...

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    More Than Hype

    By Ms. Day

    Published: December 26, 2007

    When you're practically perfect, it's difficult to admit that you have flaws. Ms. Day should know — she struggles with accepting her one shortcoming almost every day....

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    The Art of Fiction

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: December 26, 2007

    Having an artist paint your portrait is a statement to the world that you've arrived. You're the Queen of England, you're a captain of industry, you're a wealthy egotist with...

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    That Blue Was Revolting

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: December 26, 2007

    Yves Klein wrote a symphony that consisted of a single sustained chord (The Monotone Symphony), he patented a hue (International Klein Blue, immortalized online at...

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    Memento Morrie

    By Jeanette Kozlowski

    Published: December 26, 2007

    If you're not one of the 11 million souls worldwide who owns a copy of Mitch Albom's book Tuesdays with Morrie, consider yourself lucky and unlucky — lucky to have...

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    Introductions Necessary

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: December 26, 2007

    Hey! What's up? How were your holidays? That's good to hear. Ours were really nice, too — just busy as always. So this is a great party, huh? Yeah, the Wine Merchant Ltd....

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    The Hill Has Eyes

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: December 26, 2007

    After gorging yourself five times a day for weeks, you are now hooked on the snacks. But sadly, you couldn't cook up one more treat. To get your hands on the already-made good...

19. Music

    Face the Nation

    We find out what rocked across the country in 2007.

    By John Nova Lomax, Michael Gallucci, Gray, Chris, Jason Harper, Dave Segal, Niki D'Andrea, Jennifer Maerz, Arielle Castillo, Lina Lecaro, Sarah Askari and Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: December 26, 2007

    The holidays are a time of family, schmaltzy Christmas commercials that somehow make you cry and — if you are involved in music journalism — list-making. Lots and...

20. B-Sides

    Grind It Up | Makin' a List

    Ruka Puff dabbles in movie-making, while the members of Ludo share their Christmas wish lists.

    By Keegan Hamilton and Annie Zaleski

    Published: December 26, 2007

    "I just woke up one morning and said, 'I'm going to write a fuckin' movie,'" is not a statement the average person tends to make. Then again, all it takes is one quick glance...