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Blown to Peaces: Weather Underground leaders claimed their bombings were devised to avoid bloodshed. But FBI agents suspect the radical '70s group killed a cop in the name of revolution.
By Peter Jamison
Published: September 16, 2009
On the night of February 16, 1970, Brian McDonnell was sorting through bulletins on the Teletype machine at Park Police Station in the Upper Haight neighborhood of San...
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Consider Collinsville the Milan of Illnois
By Courtney Schilling
Published: September 16, 2009
Italian culture has really given us a lot to celebrate – good food, good wine, Goodfellas. Whether you can proudly call yourself a paisano or just wish you were one, head...
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On the Road for 70 Years
By Courtney Schilling
Published: September 16, 2009
It's difficult to believe it's been 70 years since The Wizard of Oz first took audiences on the long strange trip down the yellow brick road. Cinematography may have come a...
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Make Mine A Gibson
By Paul Friswold
Published: September 16, 2009
If you could build a dominant starting pitcher for a baseball team, you'd want your mold to be Cardinals legend Bob Gibson: a hard-throwing, mentally tough, ultra-competitive...
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Ear's to You, Vincent
By Courtney Schilling
Published: September 16, 2009
Vincent van Gogh's artistic career lasted a brief nine years, and in his lifetime he sold only one canvas. And yet in those nine years he managed to create more than 900...
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Back to Basics
By Alison Sieloff
Published: September 16, 2009
After reviewing the activities that are planned for the Pioneer Days festival at the historic Daniel Boone Home & Boonesfield Village (1868 Highway F, Defiance; 636-798-2005 or...
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They Say It's Your Birthday
By Alison Sieloff
Published: September 16, 2009
What happens when several arts groups get together? Is the cacophony of culture so loud that the individual voices are drowned out? Or is each troupe stronger for proximity? In...
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You Can't Kill Kill
By Paul Friswold
Published: September 16, 2009
Fans of punk rock and creative destruction are perhaps familiar with cult Michigan art collective Destroy All Monsters. Jim Shaw, Cary Loren, Mike Kelley and Niagara began...
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How Green Was My Soulard?
By Keegan Hamilton
Published: September 16, 2009
Soulard is mostly monochromatic; a sprawling red sea of bricks that bakes like an oven in the summer. But while the brewery-bound neighborhood is full of watering holes that...
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The Magic of Dreams
By Paul Friswold
Published: September 16, 2009
In Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's story A Little Princess, the titular princess is Sara Crewe, a young girl whose wealthy father enrolls her in boarding school while he...
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This'll Move You
By Alison Sieloff
Published: September 16, 2009
So you've already experienced a midday dance concert (see "Dance: It's What's for Lunch"), and that creative outdoor display has gotten you all jazzed up and excited about the...
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Dance: It's What's for Lunch
By Alison Sieloff
Published: September 16, 2009
Whether you're sitting and staring at the walls of a smoky pub or catching up with a friend over sandwiches, the lunchly hour of any workday is the most satisfying part. But...
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Quiet, Socialist
By Paul Friswold
Published: September 16, 2009
All this talk of universal health care and socialism makes us yearn for the days of the Bolsheviks, when the workers rose up and smashed their oppressors. The folks at the...
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How Did it Become?
By Paul Friswold
Published: September 16, 2009
What happens on canvas may not be what was intended to happen. The artist is a conduit channeling the creative impulse, sure, but mistakes happen. And many artists will tell...
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It Begins
By Paul Friswold
Published: September 16, 2009
We stand on the cusp of a new season for the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. So, are we to view the next eight months of performances as a mountain to be scaled, or are we...
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'Sup, TUNT?
By Paul Friswold
Published: September 16, 2009
Zach Galifianakis is an acquired taste, like olives or straight absinthe. His comedic stylings are not so much deadpan as they are the exhausted, thousand-yard stare of a man...
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Night & Day
'Sup, TUNT?
By Paul Friswold
Published: September 16, 2009
Zach Galifianakis is an acquired taste, like olives or straight absinthe. His comedic stylings are not so much deadpan as they are the exhausted, thousand-yard stare of a man...
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From The Blogs
They're crying noise pollution in New Town, but at Vintage Vinyl last week the music couldn't have been loud enough during its Beatles Day celebration
By Paul Friswold and Chad Garrison
Published: September 16, 2009
Beatles Day Exhilarates Vintage Vinyl I can't remember when I've seen a larger group of laughing people queuing up to spend money. Yet there they were at Vintage Vinyl on...
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Blowback
RFT readers weigh in on the raw-food diet and take Dennis Brown to task over his stand on the Kiel Opera House
Published: September 16, 2009
FEATURE, SEPTEMBER 10, 2009 RAW FOODISTS ARE NUTS Crazy diet for crazy people: Are raw foodists aware that one day soon they will be diagnosed with a psychological disorder...
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Amazing Facts & Beyond
Amazing Facts & Beyond: Museum of Leftover Masterpieces
By Dan Zettwoch
Published: September 16, 2009
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