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By Annie Zaleski
The 2009 RFT Music Showcase looked different than it did in past years, and it wasn't just because of the nasty thunderstorm that shortened Beat Street Crew's set and drenched...
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Night & Day
By Alison Sieloff
Street parties are typically a pretty good time. You've got a variety of folks all hanging out together and mingling, you have delicious eats, and you can feel free to knock...
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Night & Day
By Paul Friswold
Photographer Thomas Struth has expressed in interviews his "interest in the fate of art in museums." To him, the central question of the museum comes down to determining if...
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Night & Day
By Nicole Beckert
Graffitists and street artists are seasoned players in the game of visual media; it is their mission to flood the streets with art made by the public for the public. The...
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Night & Day
By Nicole Beckert
Graffitists and street artists are seasoned players in the game of visual media; it is their mission to flood the streets with art made by the public for the public. The...
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Night & Day
By Alison Sieloff
Today's McMansions speak volumes about our disposable, new-obsessed culture — and much of what this kind of construction says isn't good. But what about the homes of...
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Night & Day
By Paul Friswold
Harold Gray's comic strip Little Orphan Annie introduced the ghost-eyed titular character to the world, but it was the Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin musical who gave Annie...
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Night & Day
By Paul Friswold
Skateboarding's image has been partially rehabilitated in the past decade. The days of filthy punkers and long-haired surfers wreaking havoc in city streets are gone — to...
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Night & Day
By Alison Sieloff
In these tough economic times, dads who might have been longing to, ah, shall we say, reclaim their youth through horsepower and precision steering are shying away from such...
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Night & Day
By Paul Friswold
What St. Louis knows as Mardi Gras is called Carnaval in some countries and Fasching in others. By any name, Carnival allows people to live life a little more fully, at least...
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Night & Day
By Christian Schaeffer
A question for all you recent college graduates: What, exactly, do you have to show for your four-plus years in higher education? Let me guess — a few hundred Facebook...
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Night & Day
By Alison Sieloff
The scavenger hunts of our youth were fine enough, but these day-camp searches usually involved tracking down twigs, leaves and other natural elements, all under the watchful...
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Night & Day
By Brooke Foster
In June 1969, a homophobia-driven police raid on a Greenwich Village bar provoked immediate and violent uprisings. The Stonewall Riots, as they came to be known, marked a...
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Night & Day
By Paul Friswold
Things are hopping at the Wings, the retirement home for old actresses. The charitable trust that maintains the home has arranged a fundraising performance by young actors to...
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Night & Day
By Alison Sieloff
Through our car windows, we tend to not notice our surroundings, and that might be a good thing — there are already enough accidents on the roads! But, of course, this...
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Night & Day
By Paul Friswold
Abortion is not a topic Americans are willing to discuss. We shout about it, we scream, we editorialize or sermonize, we pose hypothetical questions, we divide into two camps...
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Night & Day
By Paul Friswold
It's a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world, sang a very wise man once, and it's even more so when you're a teenager. The drive to establish your adult personality, to try on...
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Night & Day
By Alison Sieloff
In the 1960s change was in the air. Civil unrest loomed, fashions hippified, music evolved — and St. Louis' Craft Alliance was founded. Now, 45 years later, it's time to...
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Unreal
Symphony for the Devil
"Warning! Combining ridiculous amounts of hard alcohol with prescription drugs before engaging in extramarital sex with mentally disturbed strippers...
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From The Blogs
By Chad Garrison and Keegan Hamilton
Hey, Fairmount Park, Fix Your JumboTron
Good news horseracing fans: The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review an appeal filed by four Chicago-area casinos over a special...
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