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Butt Heads: Want to know where our public officials stand on smoking bans? OK, we'll ask 'em!
By Kristen Hinman
Published: May 27, 2009
Two weeks ago state legislatures in North Carolina — the nation's top tobacco-producing state — and Wisconsin passed statewide smoking bans, bringing to 33 the...
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Would Ya Just Watch the Hair?!
By Paul Friswold
Published: May 27, 2009
Wait, don't tell me: You hate disco. Me too. But missing out on Saturday Night Fever because of the soundtrack is like skipping out on Star Wars because of its questionable...
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Rent's Due
By Paul Friswold
Published: May 27, 2009
Jonathan Larson spent seven years writing and rewriting his dream musical, the project he hoped would revitalize the American musical as an art form. The finished project,...
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Bells Will Be Ringing
By Alison Sieloff
Published: May 27, 2009
Bells can be holy — those atop church towers come to mind — and they can be lowly, such as those dingers that sit on the counters of so many shops. The ringing of...
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Tune In and Turn It Up
By Alison Sieloff
Published: May 27, 2009
Many of the enormous sculptures at Laumeier Sculpture Park (12580 Rott Road, Sunset Hills) make us feel small and inconsequential — and, of course, we as individuals...
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Save Streams, Breathe Easy, Buy Art
By Alison Sieloff
Published: May 27, 2009
Preserving a vision of nature in artwork is a good idea. But actually preserving nature is a better thought, and thanks to the Missouri Coalition for the Environment's...
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What A Girl Wants
By Paul Friswold
Published: May 27, 2009
If you think the wanton women, violence and implied necrophilia is getting out of hand on television, you'd better not hide out at the opera this evening. Richard Strauss'...
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Eating Good in Maplewood
By Ms. Day
Published: May 27, 2009
Ms. Day is quite the elegant eater. She nibbles, she sips, she dabs the corner of her mouth most delicately with a napkin. Of course, she doesn't enjoy, say, wrestling with a...
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Plant Yourself
By Mark Fischer
Published: May 27, 2009
Hollywood legend avers that low-budget filmmaker Roger Corman undertook the 1960 black comedy The Little Shop of Horrors on a bet to see just how quickly and cheaply a...
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Flex Your Cylinder Heads
By Brooke Foster
Published: May 27, 2009
Want some good automotive news for a change? Chrysler is turning a profit! Not really. But it is possible to utter "cars" and "fun" in the same sentence these days,...
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Death Disco
By Paul Friswold
Published: May 27, 2009
It's 1978, and Saturday Night Fever is the hottest film going in Chile as far as Raul is concerned. Raul has perfected his homage to Tony Manero by watching the film in an...
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Wave of Beautification
By Paul Friswold
Published: May 27, 2009
"Rococo" inspires visions of bric-a-brac and gorgeous clutter, a visual overload of fiddly bits and gilt. So why is painter Jerald Ieans' new exhibit entitled Waves and Rococo?...
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Write Makes Right
By Paul Friswold
Published: May 27, 2009
Parents everywhere wonder, "What's going on in my high schooler's head?" Few of them ask and get answers, and fewer still ask the kid to write down their thoughts. The latter...
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Drink, Dammit
By Paul Friswold
Published: May 27, 2009
In the aftermath of the Great Depression, the noir genre came into its own. Tough-talkin' broads and tougher-acting guys warred across black-and-white cityscapes where loyalty...
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Talkin' Chalk -- And Parties
By Alison Sieloff
Published: May 27, 2009
Charming chimney sweep Bert (a.k.a. Dick Van Dyke) isn't the only one who can create magical sidewalk art — the Missouri Botanical Garden (4344 Shaw Boulevard) has found...
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Two Comics Enter, One Comic Leaves
Published: May 27, 2009
Bill Chott has made a pretty nice career for himself by just making stuff up. He tells ridiculous stories, finds himself ensnared in bizarre situations and then talks his way...
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The Return of Free Candy
Published: May 27, 2009
Free Candy, you old-timers may recall, was the talk show that was never broadcast on any tv or radio station, yet was still staged live every month at the Hartford Coffee...
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Laurell K. Hamilton Book Release Party
Published: May 27, 2009
Author of the wildly-popular Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series (set right here in St. Louis, by the by) releases the new Anita book, Skin Trade, with a party. Officially, the...
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Music
We investigate a possible connection between rapper Huey and a drive-by, then scan the always-enlightening comments at STLtoday
By Keegan Hamilton and Tom Finkel
Published: May 27, 2009
Was Rapper Huey a Target? A concert at the Pageant on Sunday, May 17, featured performances by virtually every nationally known hip-hop artist from St. Louis, including local...
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Butt Heads: At the State Capitol, a Different Set of Smoking Rules Applies
By Kristen Hinman
Published: May 27, 2009
When it comes to lighting up in Missouri's capitol building, nailing down the protocol is about as easy as pinning down a cloud of smoke. Different legislators give varying...
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