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It Ain't Rocket Science: Like the man says: People talk about the joy of sex, but it don't last nothin' like shootin' anvils
By Keegan Hamilton
Published: October 21, 2009
Shots ring out on an overcast fall afternoon. Musket-toting men clad in coonskin caps and leather leggings have gathered at a campground on the banks of the Osage River, near...
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The Joy of Company
Published: October 21, 2009
Everybody eats, but not everybody can throw a dinner party -- or can they? Sure, you may think your mismatched plates and appetizer-heavy lifestyle disqualifies you from...
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Enter the Chamber
Published: October 21, 2009
What do a movement-based theatrical troupe and an ensemble with a hip take on chamber music have in common? Both groups need a venue to ply their respective trades. For...
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Nevermore
By Alison Sieloff
Published: October 21, 2009
Even as we celebrate the bicentennial of Edgar Allan Poe's birth this year, the Baltimore Poe House & Museum recently laid the author to rest — again. See, his first...
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The Timbers Will Be Shivered
By Ms. Day
Published: October 21, 2009
Ms. Day has a friend who is all up on the pirate life. This chum can talk like a pirate, drink like a pirate, and even wear a shoulder parrot like a pirate. In fact, her pirate...
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Band on the Run
By Paul Friswold
Published: October 21, 2009
Producer/writer/director Charles Band has terrorized and amazed the world with his films such as Evil Bong, Gingerdead Man and the legendary Puppet Master series. Band's gift...
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Bark or Treat
By Paul Friswold
Published: October 21, 2009
Fall has arrived, which means the weather — cool and breezy — is perfect for dog-based outdoor activities. Dogs exult in autumnal radiance, so don't deny them the...
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More Yarn, Not Yawns
By Alison Sieloff
Published: October 21, 2009
Oh, the plight of the knitter! Until recently, she wasn't viewed as cool and crafty, but instead as frumpy, uptight and 100 percent grandmotherly. Why, just a few years ago,...
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Catch This!
By Alison Sieloff
Published: October 21, 2009
Some folks are experts at keeping 50 ideas in their heads at once and totally staying on task. Others of us, not so much. We wonder which group jugglers fall into (ha!). Oh...
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Saturday's Sunday Punches
By Mark Fischer
Published: October 21, 2009
The uneasy alliance between the USA and Great Britain has been tested many times since the American Revolution. The War of 1812 saw the U.S. and British duke it out over...
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You and Everyone You Know
By Paul Friswold
Published: October 21, 2009
Philip Slein runs a nifty art gallery on Washington that exhibits work by the most intriguing of contemporary artists, both national and local. But long before he dirtied his...
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Buy Local, Feel Good
By Alison Sieloff
Published: October 21, 2009
Buying handmade goods always feels more special than running up to your local big-box store and throwing some mass-produced thing into the cart. More thought goes into the...
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Hungary for Conversation
By Paul Friswold
Published: October 21, 2009
The 27 member nations of the European Union have 27 different cultures and almost as many languages. And while 2008 was the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue — it's...
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The Doctor Is In -- And Out
By Paul Friswold
Published: October 21, 2009
Determining the best character in Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show is absolutely subjective and totally pointless — but it's probably Riff Raff. The disquieting...
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Thirsty for Knowledge?
By Alex Weir
Published: October 21, 2009
If we may tweak a well-known phrase, lovers of St. Louis-made brew can have their beer and read it too. A new book called St. Louis Brews: 200 Years of Brewing in St. Louis,...
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Feel the Fear
By Alison Sieloff
Published: October 21, 2009
You've seen The Shining so many times that Jack Nicholson and his "Here's Johnny" routine aren't frightening in the slightest. And when Michael Myers is, in fact, not dead in...
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From The Blogs
Mike Danton's saga continues, a mouse is found in a can of Mountain Dew, and dignitaries from Turkmenistan come here to learn (really) about St. Louis' education system. Plus: How will KMOX regain its No. 1 title?
By Chad Garrison
Published: October 21, 2009
Thin Ice Last time we wrote about Mike Danton, the former St. Louis Blues player was in federal prison and his agent, David Frost, had just launched a website on which Danton...
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Blowback
Our story on Rock Hill's ticket-writing traffic cop brings out the beast in RFT readers, while smoking-ban opponents organize
Published: October 21, 2009
DAILY RFT, OCTOBER 14, 2009 GHOULISH SMOKERS Good question: Has there ever been assembled a more disgusting-looking group of people in the history of the world ["Smoking Ban...
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Amazing Facts & Beyond
Amazing Facts & Beyond: Love is a razor blade in your Halloween candy
By Dan Zettwoch
Published: October 21, 2009
Go the Amazing Facts and Beyond blog to further follow the exploits of our trivial hero.
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Ask a Mexican
Dinner and a Show: Why do Mexicans whoop it up for mariachi bands?
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: October 21, 2009
Dear Mexican: As a teacher, we've been exhorted to expand our efforts in closing the achievement gap between majority and minority students (read: Anglos and Mexicans). I teach...
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