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Good Samaritan goes to a topless bar, the RFT readers choose their next Donnybrook host, and man, oh man, is Brenda Warner hot!
By Chad Garrison
Published: September 9, 2009
The Good Samaritan in the Topless Joint In the Bible, Jesus tells the parable of the Good Samaritan, who, on the road to Jericho, nurtured and saved a man beaten and robbed by...
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Night & Day
Stumbling in the Dark, Gladly
By Paul Friswold
Published: September 9, 2009
For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there is an unwieldy title, but it tells you everything you need to know about the new group...
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If You're Tryin', You're Cryin'
By Paul Friswold
Published: September 9, 2009
From a distance, the paintings appear to be satellite images of landscape, or a rain-spattered surface. Barely visible is a yellow kernel or two, or is it a person? Move closer...
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Ladies Pay
By Nicole Beckert
Published: September 9, 2009
One of the more vicious double standards women must deal with is in the realm of power. As equality between the sexes creeps incrementally towards a position of balance, more...
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Let's Drop the Puck Already
By Paul Friswold
Published: September 9, 2009
Hockey season is nigh. Everybody's talking optimism and improvement and returning stars and a fresh start and young players stepping up — the onset of the new season,...
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Bird vs. Fish
By Paul Friswold
Published: September 9, 2009
The Florida Marlins engender a strong sense of "meh." Some National League teams you hate (Mets), some teams you grudgingly like (those hapless Pirates) and some teams you...
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Doggie Dip
By Ms. Day
Published: September 9, 2009
Oh, to live the life of Dr. Barkapotomus! The Night & Day dog gets a tummy scratch every 100 words or so — that adds up to quite a lot of pets per day! — and he...
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All Hits, No Filler
By Alison Sieloff
Published: September 9, 2009
For the next two weekends, Soundstage Productions presents William Shakespeare's Greatest Hits, a stockpot-like assemblage of all of the best parts of ol' Billy's works. Now,...
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To Tell the Truth
By Paul Friswold
Published: September 9, 2009
Akira Kurosawa's Rashômon is a morass of deceptions, obfuscations and lies — and yet despite a rape and a murder (or is it a suicide?), Kurosawa's film manages to...
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Park in Overdrive
By Mark Fischer
Published: September 9, 2009
This weekend, the Gateway to the West will send compasses spinning in all directions as the Arch grounds transform into a gateway to the diverse wonders of our country's...
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All's Fair in Love
By Paul Friswold
Published: September 9, 2009
Sabrina is young and vibrant and in love with life. Fresh from a five-year stint in Europe, she's returned to America a polished and poised woman of the world. And she's also...
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Oh, the Urbanity
By Alison Sieloff
Published: September 9, 2009
Nature's got beauty in spades, but urban areas certainly don't want for striking imagery either, though their splendor is mostly of the manmade variety. Of course, the flip...
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Nearer My Cat to Thee
By Paul Friswold
Published: September 9, 2009
Blinkered by the prospect of plenitudinous beer and positively excellent festival cuisine — macaroni and cheese should be offered at more outdoor events — I have...
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There Goes the Neighborhood
By Paul Friswold
Published: September 9, 2009
Perhaps the most frightening realization to come from Jennifer Haley's grim comedy Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom is the playwright's belief that there is no discernable...
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Jeepers Peepers
By Alison Sieloff
Published: September 9, 2009
St. Louisans who have been out and about at all in this town know that we have some fabulously frisky burlesque dancers. Our ladies can shimmy and shake it like nobody's...
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We Salute You
By Alison Sieloff
Published: September 9, 2009
Even with all of the talk these days about the troops and where they're deployed, we still aren't hearing nearly enough chatter about individual servicemen and -women. These...
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Unreal
Unreal searches in vain for salvation and gets sucked into writing about the new Vacuum Cleaner Museum in St. James, Missouri
Published: September 9, 2009
Unreal's Search For Salvation Unreal doesn't consider itself a likely candidate for salvation, but we happened to hear Patti Smith's "Dancing Barefoot" on the radio the other...
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Blowback
RFT readers wonder whether administrators at a Sedalia high school are still living in the Paleolithic era
Published: September 9, 2009
Daily RFT, AUGUST 31, 2009 MONKEY BUSINESS Where's Clarence Darrow when you need him? Looks like Missouri is devolving ["Evolution T-Shirts on Trial in Missouri Town," Chad...
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Amazing Facts & Beyond
Amazing Facts & Beyond: Excuse me...I just have to ask...did you know?
By Kevin Huizenga
Published: September 9, 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: Cha-ching: Mexican money mysteries and odd abbreviations explained
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: September 9, 2009
Dear Mexican: Why do Mexicans make the sign of mucho dinero with a gap between their thumb and index fingers, as if holding an imaginary wad of bills between both fingers? El...
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