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There S/he Is! The Miss Gay America Pageant prances into St. Louis — and Unreal drinks it all in like a camel at Hoover Dam
Published: November 4, 2009
Moments before the pageant begins, Unreal feels every last downy hair on our arms come to attention. Here we are in a gilded side hall to the Millennium Hotel's Grand Ballroom...
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Change Is Gonna Come
By Alex Weir
Published: November 4, 2009
Mention "the Heights" to a New Yorker from Brooklyn and she'll think, "Yes: beautiful Brooklyn Heights." Over in Manhattan, the same term would more likely conjure Washington...
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In the Crease
By Paul Friswold
Published: November 4, 2009
The Japanese art of origami seems nothing more than a beautiful diversion, or, depending on your manual dexterity, a frustrating one. But the act of transforming a flat piece...
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A Man Alone
By Mark Dischinger
Published: November 4, 2009
Jonathan Lethem invented the hipster comic-book-loving nerdy smart guy in 1996, long before we had a president wielding a light saber on the White House lawn. The prizewinning...
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Pleasures of the Flesh
By Paul Friswold
Published: November 4, 2009
Chefs Wes Johnson and Brendan Noonan, and bartender Patrick Thomas created Carnivorale, their celebration of meat, with two ideas in mind. The first: The three of them have...
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Animal Tales
By Mark Fischer
Published: November 4, 2009
Learning from your mistakes is an essential skill that most of us acquire the hard way. But this weekend, the Metro Theatre Company provides a crash course that shows us that...
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Dancing Queens and Kings
By Ms. Day
Published: November 4, 2009
Sometimes Ms. Day just gets that feeling, and she simply can't suppress it. No, it's not the urge to get in the car and drive, drive, drive away from it all — though that...
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All Fired Up
By Alison Sieloff
Published: November 4, 2009
Fire brought the caveman out of darkness and helped him develop s'mores. These same flickering flames still serve as a source of warmth, light and campfire treats today, and at...
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The End Is Nigh?
By Nicole Beckert
Published: November 4, 2009
With 2012 on the horizon — the reputed end date of the world according the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, as if you didn't know — doomsday theories abound in...
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Pointe of Power
By Alison Sieloff
Published: November 4, 2009
When you think of dancerly qualities, flexibility, poise and grace are usually at the top of the list. But dancers have to be crazy strong, too, and if power is sexy, then raw...
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A Wicked Good Time
By Alison Sieloff
Published: November 4, 2009
While most of the good people in the world are against villains, we've decided we're for some evildoers, at least the fictional ones. Just think about it: Books and movies...
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X-Marks-the-Spot Factor
By Paul Friswold
Published: November 4, 2009
Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island is a ripping yarn about pirates and buried treasure, and the moral development of young Jim Hawkins. Coming into possession of a...
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What About Bob?
By Paul Friswold
Published: November 4, 2009
Bob is a teenage girl on the run. Hitchhiking her way east, Bob tells her various drivers stories about her family and her boyfriend who's in a band, but something's not right....
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One for the Underdogs
By Paul Friswold
Published: November 4, 2009
After twenty years as a carpenter and high school English teacher, Barb Johnson turned to writing full-time. Her first short story collection, More of This World or Maybe...
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A Student of Lerner
By Paul Friswold
Published: November 4, 2009
Pianist and singer Steve Ross returns to town for a four-show stand at the Kranzberg Arts Center (501 North Grand Boulevard; 314-534-1111 or www.cabaretstl.com) to perform his...
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News Real
Hallowed Be Thy Name: A member of the Schlafly clan figures to do the Lord's work by cleansing the Bible of its "liberal bias"
By Keegan Hamilton
Published: November 4, 2009
Translating early biblical texts from Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic into modern English is a perilous proposition for even the most skilled linguists and scholars. In their line of...
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Blowback
Readers think the Boss, birther bashing and anvil shooting is a blast
Published: November 4, 2009
NEWS REAL, OCTOBER 29, 2009 CHEERS FOR RECYCLING Worthy of its awards: This is a classic example of Not In My Back Yard syndrome ["What Price Green?" Kristen Hinman]. Only that...
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Amazing Facts & Beyond
Amazing Facts & Beyond: Dogzigners
By Dan Zettwoch
Published: November 4, 2009
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This Week's Cover
The Cover of the November 5 Print Edition
Published: November 4, 2009
T.C. Taylor, Miss Gay Arizona America 2009, photographed by Jennifer Silverberg
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Ask a Mexican
Fakin' It: The Mexican on loud laughs and Latinos in America
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: November 4, 2009
Dear Mexican: Why do beaners or gabachos deliberately try to ignore white people and act like they're not there, or when your walking by, the lady beaners laugh so hard with a...
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