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1. Feature

   Smelterville

   Crystal City forges one hell of a deal.

   By Chad Garrison

   Published: January 16, 2008

   Mention the town of Crystal City and invariably you'll hear the name Bill Bradley. The NBA Hall of Famer turned U.S. senator from New Jersey grew up here, just a half-hour...

2. Film

   Buyers Beware

   Will desperate times call for desperate measures at Sundance '08?

   By Scott Foundas

   Published: January 16, 2008

   Welcome to the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Circumvent the Writers' Strike. But seriously folks: As Park City, Utah's famed...

3. Night & Day

   Grow Up, Not Old

   By Paul Friswold

   Published: January 16, 2008

   The latest installment of Sesame Street Live, "When Elmo Grows Up," has the Muppets imagining what careers they'll pursue when they get older. Elmo, Zoe, Abby Cadabby, we...

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   JeffVanderWho?

   By Alison Sieloff

   Published: January 16, 2008

   The St. Louis neighborhood JeffVanderLou is bounded by Dr. Martin Luther King Drive and Delmar Boulevard on the south, Natural Bridge Avenue on the north, North Jefferson...

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   Don't Fall to Pieces!

   By Alison Sieloff

   Published: January 16, 2008

   In 2004 you wept learning about Ray Charles' life through Ray. In 2005 you loved seeing Johnny Cash's rise to stardom in Walk the Line. And let's never forget your unending...

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   Schaeffer on Schäfer

   By Christian Schaeffer

   Published: January 16, 2008

   Christine Schäfer is considered one of the more versatile soprano voices to come out of Germany. Her skilled interpretations of everything from baroque music to modern...

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   Mardi Hearty

   By Brooke Foster

   Published: January 16, 2008

   Ready to prep for Mardi Gras? You can go the party-bro route or the classy route. Party-bro route: guzzling hurricanes, practicing the art of the discreet pee, passing out at 2...

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   Outside the Wall

   By Alex Weir

   Published: January 16, 2008

   You know the theme of Pink Floyd's The Wall: the barrier that exists between artist and audience, between the lonely individual and the rest of humanity. A. R. Gurney revisited...

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   On-the-Job Training

   By Paul Friswold

   Published: January 16, 2008

   Suppose you're a young artist. You believe you have the talent and you have the desire to make things, but you don't have the practical experience of making something expressly...

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    Time for Art

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: January 16, 2008

    Can you depict time in something as static as two- or three-dimensional art? An image in traditional media is fixed, and time is forever on the move. If time is pinned in one...

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    Go, Doggone It

    By Anna Teekell Hays

    Published: January 16, 2008

    Sadie the shepherd dog here, delighted to be asked to contribute to Night & Day. It's not often we mutts are allowed to write in, but it's not often that local theater concerns...

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    Oh, the Horror!

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: January 16, 2008

    Around these parts, you can't open a beer out of earshot of folks at a trivia event — they're happening everywhere! But you're just terrible at those kinds of trivia...

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    Enlightenment at the End of the Tunnel

    By Jeanette Kozlowski

    Published: January 16, 2008

    Tom Brady became a performance artist by quite literally burying himself alive. But that was more than three decades ago; now, Brady has launched his own performance and...

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    Tootin' Their Own Horns

    By Jeanette Kozlowski

    Published: January 16, 2008

    The Tony Award-winning, brass-and-percussion spectacle Blast! lives up to its punctuation. This show is loud — and it erupts visually onstage with an explosion of colors...

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    Boxing Day

    By Mark Fischer

    Published: January 16, 2008

    There are going to be quite a few naked, restrained people at the phd gallery (2300 Cherokee Street; 314-664-6644 or www.phdstl.com) on Saturday, January 19, thanks to artist...

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    Dear Beer

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: January 16, 2008

    Beer has been ghettoized as the blue-collar beverage for too long. There's nothing wrong with that — blue-collar workers are the backbone of the world. But plenty of...

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    Money Hubble

    By James Weber

    Published: January 16, 2008

    Astrophysicist Lyman Spitzer's idea for an extra-terrestrial telescope stationed outside Earth's pesky ultraviolet and infrared light-sucking atmosphere began as a dream in...

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    Fun Intended

    It's the Funny Bone, after all

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: January 16, 2008

    You've been watching a lot of the MTV channels lately, and you're on the verge of thinking that Boiling Points and Punk'd are actually high comedy. Indeed, you have put...

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    You down with OPP?

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: January 16, 2008

    Every weekend, the Chelsea flea market in New York City beckons to a unique subset of photo connoisseurs: those who collect family snapshots. Fascinated not only by the...

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    Pattern Interference: Digital Media and the Visual Arts

    Published: January 16, 2008

    Art professor Mike Miller discusses the aesthetic appearance of digital media using good ol' analog methods such as painting and print making. Thu., Jan. 24, 12:15...