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Unreal learns where dinos fit into the Bible, meets a plow-truck innovator and crunches numbers for St. Louis County. Plus: John Goodman makes an appearance in the Local Blog o' the Week!
Twenty-five years after the comic book (and subsequent animated series, awesome action figure line and movies), the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are touring the country in a bus, stopping in cities to perform their own style of martial arts. On Friday, they stopped at the St. Louis Science Center.Although it's been more than two decades since the half-shell ninjas first won over popular culture, their fans are still dedicated, for ironic reasons or not. So they arrived, posed with the TMNT
Saint Louis Zoo patron or wild animal?The next endangered species at the Saint Louis Zoo could be the notorious redneck known as the "zoosier" (zoo hoosier). Why's that? 'Cause the zoo and the city's other free tourist attractions -- the Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri History Museum and St. Louis Science Center -- could begin charging admission under an amenmdent that received initial approval from the Missouri Senate today. And as zoologists and parking valets have long known, zoosiers "do