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Sports
Inside Baseball: A tour of St Louis landmarks from the famous to the infamous (and everything in between)
By Ian Froeb
Published: July 8, 2009
St. Louis has always been a baseball town. In fact, a rare 1764 edition of Riverfront Times reports that Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau celebrated the establishment of...
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A Stepmother's Love
By Paul Friswold
Published: July 8, 2009
Jean Racine’s great tragedy Phedre was itself the victim of tragedy. Racine’s rivals arranged for a lesser playwright to stage a similar play, and then hired...
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Rock, Lobsters and Bad Love
By Paul Friswold
Published: July 8, 2009
In 1971 Sam Shepard abandoned his wife and child to canoodle with Patti Smith. Their relationship was doomed from the start, birthed of a betrayal and fueled by more passion...
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Heavenly Hosts
By Brooke Foster
Published: July 8, 2009
You love baseball. You live baseball. You are baseball. And, right now, there's a baseball-shaped hole in your heart that can only be filled by right-behind-home-plate seats at...
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Learn Your Lessons Well
By Paul Friswold
Published: July 8, 2009
The second of the Bible-centric musicals of the '70s, Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak's Godspell combines the Gospel of Saint Matthew with familiar hymns and the...
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Fifth Time's A Charm
By Christian Schaeffer
Published: July 8, 2009
For all the simple joys the game of baseball provides — game-winning home runs, split-finger fastballs, on-field acrobatics — it's the sport's ephemera that gets...
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Blackballed No More
By Paul Friswold
Published: July 8, 2009
Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947 — but the color barrier wasn't officially established until the formation of the National League in...
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His and Hearse
By Alison Sieloff
Published: July 8, 2009
Who says Halloween is the only creepy time of the year? Ghosts are around us all of the time — just ask the folks who run the Mineral Springs Haunted Tours. For those of...
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A Peach of A Day
By Alison Sieloff
Published: July 8, 2009
Ahhh, peaches! Is there a more perfect fruit for pie-making? A peach pie ascends above all other fruity desserts, with its smidge of tartness that balances out the sweet....
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Art: It's What's For Dinner
By Alison Sieloff
Published: July 8, 2009
Marie Antoinette had things all wrong. Rather than saying the suffering peasants should eat cake, she should have encouraged them to dine on art instead. You know, cake might...
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Stars In Her Eyes
By Ms. Day
Published: July 8, 2009
As fancy as Ms. Day is, you won't be surprised to learn that she's had several brushes with celebrities dating all of the way back to her childhood. In those younger years, she...
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A Night at the Opera
By Paul Friswold
Published: July 8, 2009
Fans of the Marx Brothers may recognize Verdi's Il Trovatore as the opera the boys gleefully wreck as the dénouement of their film, A Night At the Opera. If you'd like...
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Crush My Calm, You Cassavetes
By Mark Dischinger
Published: July 8, 2009
John Cassavetes yanked cinema by the throat and crafted a near-voyeuristic realism so impeccably acted that critics believed his film Faces was simply ad-libbed. It wasn't....
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There's A Light
Over at the Tower Grove Abbey
By Mark Fischer
Published: July 8, 2009
Times have been tough for the riffraff who haunted University City during The Rocky Horror Picture Show's long midnight movie run at the Tivoli. Sure, there's the annual...
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Pearson in Person
By Alison Sieloff
Published: July 8, 2009
You might think of Ridley Pearson as merely an author, but there's so much more to know about this guy who has adopted St. Louis as his hometown. He plays in a '60s rock band...
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A Date Which Should Live in Infamy
By Paul Friswold
Published: July 8, 2009
Susan is a black-belt online dater; Elliot has never gone on one in his life. But he's fallen for Susan through a series of emails -- or perhaps he's fallen for her writing...
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Feature
Extreme Makeover: All-Star Edition: St. Louis is cleaning house for the midsummer classic, but is it, well, lipstick on a pig?
By Keegan Hamilton
Published: July 8, 2009
The last time a swarm of TV cameras, talking heads and newspaper reporters descended on St. Louis, they were all abuzz about Sarah Palin. Leading up to the vice-presidential...
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Sports
Take Me Out to the Old (and Tarnished) Ball Game: For better or worse, baseball's midsummer classic is a symbol for the state of the game
By Aaron Schafer
Published: July 8, 2009
When Allan Huber "Bud" Selig takes his seat in Busch Stadium to watch the 80th playing of baseball's All-Star Game, he will be returning to the scene of his greatest triumph,...
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Sports
Map Locations At A Glance: Baseball Homes Of The Stars
Published: July 8, 2009
Current Stars 21. Joe Buck 18 Upper Warson Road, Ladue 22. Albert Pujols 13329 Autumn Trails Court, Creve Coeur 23. Al Hrabosky 9 Frontenac Estates Drive, Frontenac 24....
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Ten Memorable Moments and Five to Forget at Busch Stadium II
Published: July 8, 2009
Ten Memorable Moments at Busch Stadium II October 8, 1967: Bob Gibson throws a five-hit shutout against the Red Sox, striking out six and walking only one. The win gives the...
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