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Wild Rides: Sometimes the cars accelerate on their own. Sometimes they stop dead. Drivers of the hybrid Prius have discovered they can be an unexpected adventure.
By Paul Knight
Published: April 22, 2009
Bobette Riner publishes an electricity index used to promote renewable energy, and she bought a brand-new Prius last year to shoot the bird at the oil companies. "I felt so...
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Take This House (and Float It Away)
Published: April 22, 2009
Change of State Theatre presents the plight of Stu and Marlene, suburbanites unable to comprehend their house is flooded and their lives are hopelessly adrift. Sat.,...
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Miss Gay St. Louis America 2009
Published: April 22, 2009
Contestants vie to represent St. Louis at the annual Miss Gay Missouri America Pageant. Friday night featured the colorful Miss Gay St. Louis America Review Show, Saturday...
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Love at the End of Everything
By Paul Friswold
Published: April 22, 2009
Kander and Ebb's musical Cabaret is popular with young people because it's about them. Based on Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories, the raucous show depicts the goings-on...
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We Owe Him Thanks
By Paul Friswold
Published: April 22, 2009
The Gateway Arch is a memorial to the pioneer spirit. Fittingly, it also occupies land that once housed the first Lemp Brewery, and founder Johann Adam Lemp was definitely a...
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Tell Us A Story
By Paul Friswold
Published: April 22, 2009
Once a year, the city is inundated with storytellers from far and wide. The reason is the St. Louis Storytelling Festival, which celebrates the oldest form of human...
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Sketches of Old Spain
By Paul Friswold
Published: April 22, 2009
Guitars and castanets are the instruments traditionally associated with Spain. But those are the instruments of a later Spain, after the expulsion of the Moorish Empire. In the...
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We Are All Guilty
By Paul Friswold
Published: April 22, 2009
Josef K. awakes on his 30th birthday and is informed by a pair of unidentified agents that he is guilty of a crime that is not named. Josef is also not informed who the agents...
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And One Ring to Mock Them
By Christian Schaeffer
Published: April 22, 2009
Even the most die-hard Tolkien fans will admit that the Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings series is a bit overlong. The Magic Smoking Monkey Theatre has concocted a solution to...
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Read All About It
By Alison Sieloff
Published: April 22, 2009
As a big fan of reading — well, you're reading this aren't you? — you probably already know all about the Greater St. Louis Book Fair. Wait, you don't? Why, you...
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Happy Earth Day
By Alison Sieloff
Published: April 22, 2009
While Earth Day and its requisite celebrations roll around just once each year, many people treat every day as Earth Day, through their reducing and reusing and recycling...
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The Cake As Art
By Paul Friswold
Published: April 22, 2009
Cake is one of America's most important foodstuffs. All of life's big events are celebrated with cake, from weddings to birthdays and eventually, the wake. Cake is with us from...
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China's Finest
By Paul Friswold
Published: April 22, 2009
The Missouri Botanical Garden is famous — and well appreciated locally — for its Grigg Nanjing Friendship Garden, known colloquially as the Chinese garden. Full of...
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Don't Get Depressed, Get Crafty
By Brooke Foster
Published: April 22, 2009
Lately, just the word "economy" provokes the same involuntary shudders as the phrases "clown porn" or "pimiento cheese." (OK, maybe that's just us.) Still, the economy is...
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Send in the Clowns
By Alison Sieloff
Published: April 22, 2009
A certain Night & Day freelancer (we won't name names, but she knows who she is) is completely and totally afraid of clowns. When you merely mention the painted-faced ones...
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Wool You Be Mine?
By Alison Sieloff
Published: April 22, 2009
City folks don't have many opportunities to interact with farm animals — no, squirrels don't count — and that's really too bad. Your average farm-dweller is a...
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Still Shakey After All These Years
By Paul Friswold
Published: April 22, 2009
Twenty years before he made his puzzling film Greendale, Neil Young spent three years and $3 million of his own money making Human Highway, which may be more puzzling and...
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Ladies and Lilies
By Ms. Day
Published: April 22, 2009
When donning a classic all-black ensemble, Ms. Day certainly recognizes that her accessories make the outfit. But she always struggles with what jewelry to wear. Should she...
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Waiting for the Gateway Mall
By Mark Fischer
Published: April 22, 2009
From its inception in the early 1920s, the Gateway Mall, the eighteen-block downtown park extending from the Old Courthouse to 22nd Street, was intended to become a fully...
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Mother Courage and Her Children
Published: April 22, 2009
Bertolt Brecht's anti-war homily about a relentlessly mercenary woman (Mother Courage) and her ability to survive in the midst of a never-ending war -- despite the toll taken...
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