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Feature
Sweet Treatment: An experimental program offers rich rewards to drug-addicted ex-cons in St. Louis who keep themselves clean
By Nicholas Phillips
Published: January 28, 2009
Editor's note: The Eastern District of Missouri granted Riverfront Times access to reentry court sessions — normally closed to the public — on the condition that...
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Night & Day
Strange Brew & Strange Brew
Just like Hamlet, eh?
By Paul Friswold
Published: January 28, 2009
If one were looking for an instructional guide for young men just starting out in the world, you could begin and end your search with Strange Brew. In this highly informative...
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Night & Day
Feel the Enchantment
No tent required
By Alison Sieloff
Published: January 28, 2009
When Cirque du Soleil comes to town, the magical feeling in the air is palpable. The circus tent goes up, and people just know they're in for a good show. But if Cirque comes...
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Flower of the East Side
Granite's all right
By Paul Friswold
Published: January 28, 2009
Granite City, Illinois, gets a bum rap. It's a blue-collar town famous for Corral Liquors and the rapidly fading steel industry — and what's wrong with that? I know three...
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Let's Get Real
Draw your own conclusions
By Paul Friswold
Published: January 28, 2009
What's the correct definition of "artifice"? The word can mean something skillfully made, or it can mean something false or insincere. All of art is artifice — it's a...
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Night & Day
Write On!
African American read-in
By Paul Friswold
Published: January 28, 2009
If you think Black History Month won't be electric this year, you're fooling yourself. With President Obama a reality, black culture is now in the spotlight 24 hours a day....
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Orchidding Me!
Flowers for the Ages
By Ms. Day
Published: January 28, 2009
At Chez Day, delicate orchids last one, maybe two weeks — three is certainly unheard of — but at the Missouri Botanical Garden (4344 Shaw Boulevard; 314-577-9400 or...
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Night & Day
That's Entertainment
By Paul Friswold
Published: January 28, 2009
Ruggiero Leoncavallo proves that there are one-hit wonders, and there are one-hit wonders. Although he composed several operas, including a version of La Bohème that...
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Ice Carve-Nival
Cold cuts and hot chocolate
By Christian Schaeffer
Published: January 28, 2009
Michelangelo had it easy. When he sculpted the David out of marble, he knew those curly locks and chiseled abs would be preserved and appreciated for the next millennium. Ice...
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Just A Little Crush?
It's so much more than that
By Alison Sieloff
Published: January 28, 2009
Unmarried men probably think all the ladies who aren't spoken for are empty-headed gold-diggers. And the single women out there may be operating under the notion that...
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Insect Inside
In fact, there are a bunch of 'em!
By Alison Sieloff
Published: January 28, 2009
Nature's perfect beauty is often ignored because we see it all the time. From a bird gracefully taking flight to a hearty evergreen surviving the cold winter temperatures, the...
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Night & Day
Cheap, Cheap, Fun, Fun
Affordable clothes make for a good time
By Alison Sieloff
Published: January 28, 2009
A wise person once said, "You deserve a break today," and nothing could be closer to the truth. You stayed on task and on budget during the holiday shopping season — you...
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Arch-Eology
Arch de triumph
By Mark Fischer
Published: January 28, 2009
Here's hoping that locals' familiarity with the Gateway Arch will also serve as a gateway to the revolutionary work of its father, Eero Saarinen, one of the most...
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Night & Day
A Well-Examined Life
She feld Jung, in a Freudian sense
By Paul Friswold
Published: January 28, 2009
In the early 1900s, psychoanalysis was an exciting new science championed by Sigmund Freud and few other people. Carl Jung was one of those people, a psychiatrist who had...
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Night & Day
Are the Men Men?
Not always, but often
By Paul Friswold
Published: January 28, 2009
Noted man of letters Samuel Pepys wrote that Shakespeare's Twelfth Night was a silly play — and so he only saw it three times. Clearly, silly's not a pejorative here....
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Unreal
Unreal takes back the Big Red, talks to a Steeler, and dances the inaugural night away
Published: January 28, 2009
In case you haven't noticed, The Arizona "Formerly of St. Louis" Cardinals are thisclose to being Super Bowl XLIII champs. In case you haven't noticed, the Phoenix squad is led...
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Unreal
ALSO: Click here to see the answers to the '08 Unreal News Quiz -- and our lucky winner!Published: January 28, 2009
We Has a Winner! The winner of the 2008 Unreal News Challenge is...Allen Lowen. Allen scored 96 out of the possible 100 points on this year's edition of the quiz, published in...
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Homespun
Homespun: John Maxfield
Hullabalooga
(Tantrum Niche Records)By Christian Schaeffer
Published: January 28, 2009
Airy, open piano chords, brushed drums and organ accents usher in John Maxfield's latest record with the cocktail-jazz instrumental "Theme to Hullabalooga," a sly hint that the...
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Blowback
Ozark Serenade: RFT readers share memories of the once wild punk-rock scene in Springfield and Joplin
Published: January 28, 2009
FEATURE, JANUARY 15, 2009 Ozark Serenade Those were the days: Great article ["Anarchy in the Ozarks," Ben Westhoff]. It has been almost ten years since I left Springfield,...
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Amazing Facts & Beyond
Amazing Facts & Beyond: All-Star Shufflin' Crew
By Dan Zettwoch
Published: January 28, 2009
Be sure to visit USS Catastrophe to order The Factoids of Life, a collection of Amazing Facts & Beyond! with Leon Beyond strips — first seen in the dead-tree version...
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