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Isn't That Super? A dispatch from the 31st annual Superman Celebration in — where else? — Metropolis, Illinois.
By Jennifer Silverberg
Published: July 29, 2009
Each year since 1979, fans of Superman from around the world descend upon Metropolis, a sleepy hamlet (population 6,482) on the banks of the Ohio River at the southern tip of...
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Wonder As She Wanders
By Alison Sieloff
Published: July 29, 2009
Alice in Wonderland is one of the strangest children's stories ever. And we're not talking Dr. Seuss strange. We're thinking Hansel and Gretel, Coraline strange, one where a...
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Baio: The Early Years
By Paul Friswold
Published: July 29, 2009
There's a gang war raging out there, and it's like nothing you've ever seen. Fat Sam's one participant, just trying to run his famous Grand Slam Saloon and do a little...
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Charity Begins at Dinner
By Paul Friswold
Published: July 29, 2009
So, what's for dinner? It's the eternal question, especially if you're like some people and eat two dinners nightly (I'm a big fat dude, folks). The answer is a searing...
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Bouffant Is Better
By Paul Friswold
Published: July 29, 2009
It's the first week of August, and so another season at the Muny comes to an end. But before the lights are turned out, there's one last show — and a Muny premiere, no...
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What Day Is It?
By Christian Schaeffer
Published: July 29, 2009
December may seem like a long way away, but take notice: Jim Carrey is coming for your most cherished Christmas memories. He began his campaign in the live-action remake of How...
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Klaatu Barada Nikto!
By Mark Fischer
Published: July 29, 2009
1951's The Day the Earth Stood Still is science-fiction cinema ground zero. It's all here — the flying saucer, the giant robot, the brainiac scientist, a damsel in...
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Just Tap It In
By Alison Sieloff
Published: July 29, 2009
With its tight precision and percussive, rhythmic feel, tap dance has structure in spades, but even within those confines, there is much room for individualism, embellishment,...
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Through A Glass, Darko
By Nicole Beckert
Published: July 29, 2009
Cult classic Donnie Darko is a complex mix of science fiction, suspense thriller and doomsday tale with a comic book-like aesthetic. Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) is your ordinary...
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Fanning the Flames
By Paul Friswold
Published: July 29, 2009
Love in any age, and at any age, is a complicated negotiation, but it's especially complex when one party is fabulously wealthy and the other party isn't. And if the prenup...
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Art Across the Ocean
By Brooke Foster
Published: July 29, 2009
A soaring and inspiring work of art itself, the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis continues to bring excellent exhibits to its minimalist Loop space. Beginning Friday, July...
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Home Is Where What Is, Exactly?
By Alison Sieloff
Published: July 29, 2009
Spending cash and gobbling up properties is not just a strategy for redeveloping the city's north side. It's also the premise of the board game Monopoly. As everyone knows, the...
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Create, Recreate
By Alison Sieloff
Published: July 29, 2009
Online shopping is cool — you can find practically anything you fancy on the Web, including some stuff you didn't even know you wanted — but it's still not as...
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Happiness Is Close at Hand
By Alison Sieloff
Published: July 29, 2009
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When the Truth Isn't Enough
By Paul Friswold
Published: July 29, 2009
Which way should you go when you're not sure? Do you follow your heart, or your head? This is one of many points to argue in John Patrick Shanley's prize-winning drama, Doubt,...
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From The Blogs
St. Louis is no fun — and that's a good thing! Plus: Obama's pants, an allegedly felonious Purina fat cat and more.
By Chad Garrison
Published: July 29, 2009
St. Louis Labeled as "Not Fun City" Approved for Government Travel Several branches of the federal government have revised their travel policies so as not to appear as though...
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Unreal
Unreal plays matchmaker and goes on the hunt for a man with a fetish. Plus: Our Local Blog o' the Week and a Pit-Stain Contest.
Published: July 29, 2009
Desperately Seeking DBB (Divorced Beer Baron) It's been a while since Unreal posted our Entirely 100 Percent Unauthorized August Busch IV Dating Contest on our news blog, Daily...
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Blowback
Readers weigh in on Mississippi Nights as a nightclub name and an editor's "smarmy" apology
Published: July 29, 2009
FROM THE BLOGS, JULY 23, 2009 HOT MISSISSIPPI NIGHTS Find a new name already! While I'm all for new venues opening up in St. Louis, I don't understand why they would want to...
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Amazing Facts & Beyond
Amazing Facts & Beyond with Leon Beyond, Grape Nerd
By Kevin Huizenga
Published: July 29, 2009
Go the Amazing Facts and Beyond blog to further follow the exploits of our trivial hero.
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Ask a Mexican
Ask a Mexican!: Special Houston Edition
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: July 29, 2009
Dear Mexican: Why do Mexicans at construction sites always draw a dick and vagina on the interiors of port-a-potties? They sure are not as poetic as they are artistic. Then you...
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