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1. Feature

   Radio Active: What has Patty Wente done to create such a meltdown at KWMU?

   By Chad Garrison

   Published: May 7, 2008

   The University of Missouri-St. Louis is looking into questions surrounding the management and accounting practices at its radio station KWMU (90.7 FM). News of the university...

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   Can You Spare Some Change?

   Time to hang in the alley

   By Alison Sieloff

   Published: May 7, 2008

   The black rhinoceros is a formidable creature, weighing in at more than a ton, but do you know what beast is more fearsome? The human. Our shameful species has hunted rhinos...

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   Let's Go Parking

   It's time to party

   By Alison Sieloff

   Published: May 7, 2008

   Four very important ingredients work together to make a great party. Leave one out, and your shindig will be just OK. Forget two, and people might not even come. Fortunately,...

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   Flower Power

   The Cupples House blossoms

   By Alison Sieloff

   Published: May 7, 2008

   When you have a slightly tacky, cluttered apartment, a few vases of inexpensive flowers definitely help spruce up the place. But imagine how much of a difference expertly...

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   Up with Art!

   By Mark Fischer

   Published: May 7, 2008

   With the flowers blooming and the frozen-custard business booming, the season has taken a turn for the better (finally). But if, even after a thorough spring cleaning, your...

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   Time Heals Some Wounds

   Seven days in Italy makes them weak

   By Paul Friswold

   Published: May 7, 2008

   Roberto Rossellini's 1953 film, Journey to Italy, seemed like a sure-fire box-office hit at the time of its release. Rossellini was already a big name, and he had recent...

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   By Chisel and Brush

   Everything is always new

   By Paul Friswold

   Published: May 7, 2008

   Wesley Fordyce sculpts in wood and stone, unleashing heroic female forms; Jenna Bauer works in oil paint, limning fields of color and light. Fordyce's sculptures imply a sense...

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   Closer to Vine

   Wine and art make a great pair

   By Ms. Day

   Published: May 7, 2008

   Ms. Day always has a good time at the Art Fair at Laumeier Sculpture Park (12580 Rott Road, Sunset Hills; 314-821-1209 or www.laumeier.org) — and how could she not? With...

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   Hot Sauced

   By Christian Schaeffer

   Published: May 7, 2008

   Local folks love to add lowbrow flourishes to high-class functions — it keeps us grounded and reminds us of our hoosier heritage. This type of synergy may reach...

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    Fresh Air

    Painting outside has its perks

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: May 7, 2008

    It's happened to everyone: You're outside catching a particularly gorgeous sunset, and you want to snap a picture to remember the way the light is bouncing off the greenery...

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    Burst Forth from Your Cocoon

    Madame Butterfly /i> explained

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: May 7, 2008

    Someone we know — no names, please — was horribly embarrassed during an initial opera experience when this anonymous neophyte asked his neighbor, "So, when does...

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    Thimes for Dinner

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: May 7, 2008

    Mother's Day brunches are great, it's true — but what about a Mother's Day dinner? Sounds fancy, right? The Sheldon (3648 Washington Boulevard) knows your mom deserves...

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    Orff! Orff! Orff!

    Carmina Burana remains a crowd pleaser

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: May 7, 2008

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    An Evening of Momedy

    (Mom-friendly comedy)

    By Anna Teekell Hays

    Published: May 7, 2008

    So a black cowboy comic walks into a bar… no, really. His name is Longhorn, and he’s been walking into comedy clubs and bars (“Ouch”) for about fifteen...

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    Grin and Beer It

    Life goes better with beer

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: May 7, 2008

    Everyone remembers his or her first beer (Mickey’s Malt Liquor). But do you remember the first great beer you ever sampled? (It was Newcastle, on tap at some English pub...

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    Over and Out There

    How much art can you take?

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: May 7, 2008

    Art fans! Prepare to get rocked this Saturday (Saturday! Saturday!), when White Flag Projects becomes the epicenter for all things awesome and avant (avant! avant!)....

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    All Sorts of Strings Attached

    Pipa, lute and you

    By Mark Fischer

    Published: May 7, 2008

    For its final concert of the season, the St. Louis Classical Guitar Society presents a pair of proficient plucking prodigies: China’s Gao Hong and India’s Shubhendra...

18. News Real

    Stage Fright: The Ivory is turning into a horror show for some St. Louis theater companies

    By Aimee Levitt

    Published: May 7, 2008

    Marble Stage Theatre's artistic director, Greg Matzker, recently learned that after lengthy discussions — and what he considered a verbal agreement with the Ivory...

19. Sidebar

    Local scientists can predict the far-reaching effects of rumblers through the Earthquake Hazard Mapping Project

    By Kathleen McLaughlin

    Published: May 7, 2008

    Near its epicenter in southeastern Illinois, the 5.2-magnitude earthquake that emanated from the Wabash Valley fault on April 18 did little but rattle windows. Yet in...

20. Unreal

    Unreal hunts demons, shops for crap and contemplates wild ass

    Published: May 7, 2008

    Late last month at the Saint Louis Zoo something wild happened: A Somali wild ass was born. A subspecies of African wild ass, Equus africanus somalicus, as more prudish...