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Perverts Beware: St. Louis area police have your number
By Kathleen McLaughlin
Published: September 3, 2008
Earlier this summer, Roderick McArthur shuffled into a courtroom at the Thomas F. Eagleton Federal Building for his sentencing hearing. Hunched over his walker, the 77-year-old...
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With a Hitch
Outdoor film nights continue
By Alex Weir
Published: September 3, 2008
Frontyard Features is a local entity that organizes free outdoor movie screenings all over the city and state in an effort to promote neighborliness. One of the Frontyard...
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There Are 76 Trombones
But how many cornets?
By Mark Fischer
Published: September 3, 2008
Even folks who don't like musicals give props to The Music Man. Maybe it's because a story about a smooth-talking shyster who pulls one over on the simple citizens of River...
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Dinner Music
Have an ear for supper?
By Paul Friswold
Published: September 3, 2008
The "go out and eat at a certain restaurant and a percentage of your bill is donated to a cause" type of fundraiser is increasing in popularity, which shouldn't really be a...
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Mazed and Corn-fused
Get lost in Godfrey
By Alison Sieloff
Published: September 3, 2008
Like deliciously ripe homegrown tomatoes, the Great Godfrey Maze is only around for a limited amount of time each year. The corn stalks in Glazebrook Park (1401 Stamper Lane,...
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They Know How to Behave
They had lessons
By Paul Friswold
Published: September 3, 2008
From a very biased standpoint, A Hard Day's Night is not only the greatest of the Beatles' films, it's also slightly melancholy — and not just because of the lonely Ringo...
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But Why Do You Like Ike?
Stuff that sways opinions
By Paul Friswold
Published: September 3, 2008
In retrospect, why was Richard Milhouse Nixon electable? Kennedy drank his milkshake in the 1960 election, and his hangdog expression and dour nastiness didn't improve with...
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The Outside's In
An art fair to top all others
By Alison Sieloff
Published: September 3, 2008
When a couple local artists get together and have an art show, we call that cool. But when more than 50 artists gather to sell their works — everything from glass pieces...
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The Light Fantastic
How happy the moths shall be
By Paul Friswold
Published: September 3, 2008
If you're wont to sneak into Grand Center by the westerly route, you've no doubt noticed the burnt shell of the Spring Avenue Church. All of the growth that has happened in...
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They Read, You Listen
It's a pretty nice arrangement, really
By Alison Sieloff
Published: September 3, 2008
You might have learned that Missouri named its first poet laureate earlier this year. And then you may have realized that you've never heard of the guy. Lucky for you, at 8...
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Out on the Wire
Bubbles comes to town
By Jason Toon
Published: September 3, 2008
Andre Royo's portrayal of Bubbles in HBO's brilliant urban drama The Wire proved that there can be such a thing as a sympathetic crackhead. Based on a real addict that...
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History Lesson
No textbooks required
By Alison Sieloff
Published: September 3, 2008
Conventional methods of learning history are so played. You require excitement; you crave live-action entertainment. Good thing there's the History Theatre Festival, happening...
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Fiesta sin Siesta
Three days of Hispanic Festival
By Nicole Beckert
Published: September 3, 2008
National Hispanic Heritage Month officially runs from September 15 to October 15 (spanning two months, technically), but who wants to wait another week? The Greater St. Louis...
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Air Force Won
How Berlin got its food back
By Paul Friswold
Published: September 3, 2008
Late in June of 1948, the Soviets cut off all ground and water access to Berlin in a Cold War stare-down. The plan was to starve the city so that it would be wholly dependent...
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Who Built This City?
Maplewood is older than you think
By Jeanette Kozlowski
Published: September 3, 2008
In 1798, when the enterprising Charles Gratiot was granted the 5,440 acres that would one day evolve into the sterling city of Maplewood, did he realize that 210 years later...
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Rally 'Round the Engine
By Paul Friswold
Published: September 3, 2008
Depression has set in for many area children, as school has already started, or will start following this weekend. The poor little buggers don't know where the time went, and...
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Doggie Days of Summer
Having fun on four legs
By Alison Sieloff
Published: September 3, 2008
Can we talk about how great dogs are for a minute? They never have a bad day, even if you do. Plus, they're super cuddly and always willing to offer up kisses to anyone they...
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Great Grapes!
Norton gets its due
By Alison Sieloff
Published: September 3, 2008
Norton is more than a computer antivirus program and the name of that giant anthology you were supposed to read from in college; it's also an important American grape that...
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News Real
Cannon Fodder: The mystery of the Spanish gun in Forest Park
By Chad Garrison
Published: September 3, 2008
Fred Ruhrwien calls his curiosity downright inane, but still, the 79-year-old can't shake his obsession with an old cannon located in Forest Park. An inscription in Spanish...
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Unreal
Unreal plumbs the flavor of French vodka, consults our advice-giving pastor and ponders the Tao of Patrick Swayze
Published: September 3, 2008
"Clear. Cream, toasted hazelnut, and wispy anise aromas. A soft, gentle entry leads to a very smooth and supple dryish light-to-medium body of anise cookie, fig, and wet...
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