Fernando de Sousa, Wikimedia Commons Dara Strickland is a leading expert on sneaking food and drink into the movies. She reports on her exploits for Gut Check (from an undisclosed location) every Monday.Show: Watchmen, in all its nearly 3 hours of incomprehensible, geeky glory. No one should ever be blamed for taking a full dinner into a film this long.Food: An assortment of sweet and savory kolaches.Difficulty: Medium. Kolaches are generally compact and self-contained: They are easily wrapped
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The last CompUSA went out of business in 2007 and left a giant gaping hole for a decent computer store in the St. Louis retail market. Some might argue that the hole existed even when CompUSA was still in business since we've never been lucky enough to have a really good computer store. You know, the kind of place where you could pick from a nice selection of parts to build your own computer or get that odd gadget that a place like Best Buy or Office Max just isn't going to carry. Sure you can a
