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Master Baiter: Paul Kinsella is reeling in West African e-mail hucksters one scammer at a time
By Nicholas Phillips
Published: April 29, 2009
Calvin Huckle is bent over in his swivel office chair like he's going to vomit. His e-mail message, recited back to him in his living room in New Athens, Illinois, has him...
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Craig Newmark speaks at victim's memorial in wake of Craigslist killings
By Bradley Campbell and Matt Snyders
Published: April 29, 2009
In October 2007 Katherine Olson was looking for work. Since graduating summa cum laude from St. Olaf College with a dual degree in theater and Hispanic studies, she'd mostly...
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The Big Five-Oh
By Paul Friswold
Published: April 29, 2009
All right, this is going to sound more complicated than it is: Composer/performer Tom Hamilton manipulates in real time 50 sound clips originated by the various musicians who...
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Do It Again
By Paul Friswold
Published: April 29, 2009
No lie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a crowd-pleaser. Long before the internet ruined all our lives, Rocky Horror was the classic example of interactive entertainment. How...
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Maturity Is Overrated
By Paul Friswold
Published: April 29, 2009
It's one of life's great contradictions that when something is labeled "mature content," it almost always means it's going to appeal to your most immature nature. Credit the...
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Dance Knows No Bounds
By Alison Sieloff
Published: April 29, 2009
We write about dance often in these pages, but it isn't too frequent that we have an opportunity to highlight a classical Indian dance performance. Kiran Rajagopalan, who was...
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Very, Very Good Person
By Paul Friswold
Published: April 29, 2009
The Good Person of Setzuan, Bertolt Brecht’s dispassionate and intellectual cry for mercy among human beings receives a bracing staging through the joint efforts of St....
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Treasure from the Ivory Coast
By Paul Friswold
Published: April 29, 2009
It's seductively easy to romanticize Dobet Gnahoré. She's young, she's beautiful and she hails from the exotic Ivory Coast, a poetically-named land that sounds like...
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What Are You People, On Dope?
By Paul Friswold
Published: April 29, 2009
Fast Times at Ridgemont High is the film Roger Ebert dismissed as a "scuz-pit of a movie," which is kinda shocking considering his fondness for writer Cameron Crowe's later...
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Hungry for A Celebration?
By Alison Sieloff
Published: April 29, 2009
Monarch is smart: It's offering a meal to kickoff World Cocktail Week. That's definitely a good thing because we don't think we're alone in wanting to observe this seven-day...
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But How Do You Wind It?
By Paul Friswold
Published: April 29, 2009
In honor of the Missouri Botanical Garden's 150th anniversary, the very Victorian idea of the floral clock has been dusted off and revitalized. At twenty feet in diameter,...
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Eat Your Words
By Paul Friswold
Published: April 29, 2009
Naysayers continue to bleat on about the death of print and the ever-evaporating pool of readers, but somehow they never get around to explaining River Styx and its 34 years of...
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Will It Go Round in Circles?
By Christian Schaeffer
Published: April 29, 2009
Sports fans may be loathe to admit it, but our collective love for organized sports really just reflects our love of repetition and refinement. How else can you explain the...
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Putting Names to Numbers
By Paul Friswold
Published: April 29, 2009
Statistics don't get diseases — people get diseases, fall sick and die. But people also have dreams, plans, and visions of the world that have nothing to do with being...
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How to Get Out There
By Paul Friswold
Published: April 29, 2009
Imagine you're sixteen years old again, and decide that this is the night you're going to tell your parents over taco salad just how much you like getting naked with the...
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Cherokee Comes Alive
By Brooke Foster
Published: April 29, 2009
We're quickly rounding the corner on another May 5, and not a moment too soon. As fun to celebrate as it is to say, Cinco de Mayo gives late spring's last chill a swift kick in...
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New Voices in Film
By Paul Friswold
Published: April 29, 2009
The proliferation of digital technology has resulted in just about anybody being able to make a movie. But just because you can doesn't always mean you should; ideally you have...
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Priced to Move You
By Alison Sieloff
Published: April 29, 2009
We're fortunate to have as many arts organizations as we do in St. Louis. Each of them works hard to enrich our lives, and we show our appreciation by attending their events....
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The Good Is Gone!
By Nicole Beckert
Published: April 29, 2009
After touring the world instructing and directing her classically trained dancers in both Italy and France, renowned dancer Karole Armitage returns stateside with her own...
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Microfest: Macrofun
By Mark Fischer
Published: April 29, 2009
Rally all of your best taste buds together because St. Louis Microfest is back and it promises to deliver macro good times Friday and Saturday (May 1 and 2)! This fundraiser...
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