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Your block-by-block guide to 90 of St. Louis' chicest, trendiest, best-stocked boutiques
By Nikole Brown And Sarah Salky
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Have a child heading to a new homeroom? One of St. Louis' long-time learning leaders shares his 10-part lesson plan for parents who want to help their young students succeed
By Tom Hoerr
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Ed Throop's trying to build the first
LEED-certified building to be operated by St. Louis city. And the project's primary beneficiaries don't even pay taxes
By Nancy Larson
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Author, former KMOV news anchor and "poor man's philanthropist"
By Jeannette Cooperman
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Stretch yourself this season
By Stefene Russell
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For 20 years Kenn Thomas of Steamshovel Press has been tracking the oily tentacles of world conspiracy — and shaking readers out of their reality tunnels
By Stefene Russell
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Three health-and-wellness trips to heal your mind and body
By Susan Manlin Katzman
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The world is a sick, depraved place, full of cheaters and philanderers. And Greg Kellerman loves it
By Jeannette Cooperman
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Brian Ross, who moved home from Chicago this summer to reopen the Hi-Pointe Theater, unspools his life in the cinema
As told to Matthew Halverson
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As the U.S. economy slumps lower and lower, a St. Charles game company is soaring higher and higher-online
By Bryan A. Hollerbach
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For sight-impaired kids, the three R's- especially reading -can be nearly impossible tasks. UM-St. Louis' Pupil Project comes to their rescue
By Amy Recktenwald
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What's the frequency, Kenneth?
By Stefene Russell
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This is the story of Nelly and his haters. And perspective. And the pressure and expectations that come with being a man and a city at the same time
By Matthew Halverson
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How do pigs mate without mating? Ask Tim Safranski
By Byron Kerman
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Seven hours spent wandering U. City's main drag? Of course it involves coffee, hipsters and Walk of Fame stars. But as Sarah Truckey discovered, it'll also expose you to astronomers, masked...
By Sarah Truckey
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Graceful and serenely egoless, a nonverbal 9-year-old girl in U. City floats in and out of what the rest of us call reality. In Kirkwood, a 10-year-old boy with a formidable mind and flash-fire...
By Jeannette Cooperman
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Area experts weigh in on how to stay fit — from head to toe, inside and out
By Maud Kelly
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Sweaty palms, warnings of decapitation and other adventures in first-time flying
By Eric Ferguson
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In the world of advertising, you'd be hard-pressed to find an artist whose creative impulses hadn't long since been mangled by The Man - right? Not so, say these creative types
By Jordan Oakes
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Stella Mora carries on the shoegaze tradition
By Thomas Crone
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The platypus waddles down the red carpet, ducking creationists' hurled curses
By Jeannette Cooperman
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Actor, director, founder of prison performing arts
By Jeannette Cooperman
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In their widely different but equally compelling memoirs, three writers — Jonathan Franzen, Gerald Early and Kathleen Finneran — explore just what it is that ties us to this place called St. Louis
By Frank Kovarik
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You can tell a lot about people by what they put on their hot dogs...and you can learn even more by hanging out with the guy who sells them
By Sarah Truckey
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A new doc about St. Louis' now defunct hip-hop haberdashery kicks it old school
By Byron Kerman
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A pair of local librarians spotlights St. Louis' colorful history - in striking black-and-white
By Bryan A. Hollerbach
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Over the past few decades, Jack Scharr has quietly been building a niche fine-art empire in Chesterfield Valley. This month, his influence reaches as far away as Beijing
By Dawn Reiss
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Investigating the dark - and leafy - side of Laumeier Sculpture Park
By Byron Kerman
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Over the centuries, kings and caliphs and the archbishop of Canterbury all tried to ban chess. Now it's schoolteachers' great hope — and St. Louis schoolkids' new sport
By Jeannette Cooperman
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Pricey practice space and ProTools helped fuel the explosion of basement solo projects — but that's not the only perk of being a one-man band
By Jordan Oakes
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And why have these guys been playing it for six decades?
By Byron Kerman
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A St. Louis novelist reflects on ancestry, race, DNA testing and hyphenation
By Rick Skwiot
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An invitation to drive a $500K boat? No-brainer, right? Not so much
By Sarah Truckey
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Elsie Parker and the Poor People of Paris are fluent in French
By Steve Pick
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A native son plays shoot-'em-up in a new miniseries from the creators of The Wire
By Margaret Bauer
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Author and journalist
By Jeannette Cooperman
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Miss Jim Dandy
By Stefene Russell
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South county's Jordan Rackley goes Hollywood this month in An American Girl
By Matthew Halverson
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It was arguably the most destructive flood in American history, inundating nine states over the spring, summer and early fall of 1993
Interviews by Matthew Halverson
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COCA teaches you to unlock your inner actor, aerialist, artist or rock star
By Jeannette Cooperman
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The Wash. U. math whiz can't dribble, but why should that stop him from going pro?
By Matthew Halverson
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Mark Aschen wants to take you higher this month
By Byron Kerman
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Getting personal with St. Louis' elder statesmen of the organ, Ernie Hays and Stan Kann
By Rob Levy
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How a recreational rounder put his fates in the hands of the poker gods and took a trip to the river for one last score
By Mike DeFilippo
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And what might our man-of-the-people mayor do if he got there?
By Bryan A. Hollerbach
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But the question is whether Faun Collett has what it takes to follow through on her dream of using dogs to help at-risk young men
By Jeannette Cooperman
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For most of us, this question prompts a single answer
By David A. Murray
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How do you make a movie in 48 hours? Very quickly
By Byron Kerman
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Teddy Presberg returns to his roots
By Steve Pick
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The Missouri Film Commission is getting a financial shot in the arm that could make it easier to lure Hollywood directors in search of inexpensive shooting locales to the state and — better yet...
By Matthew Halverson
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He's affable, approachable and an all-around good guy, but surely a new $10 million contract will ruin St. Louis' biggest hometown hero, right? Don't bet on it
By Ed Condran
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Grilly Girls
By Stefene Russell
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If Gallery 210 isn't on your radar, it's time to adjust your antenna
By Elizabeth Wolfson
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New Line Theatre brings St. Louis audiences High Fidelity's first production outside of New York
By Thomas Crone
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Step into the hothouse with Butterfly House docent Lois Cromwell
By Byron Kerman
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This month, James-Hatter's Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri moves into the old Woolworth Building and begins a new chapter
By Shera Dalin
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When the Cards are away, Dave Matthews and the Black Crowes will play
By Margaret Bauer
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Before his long and decorated career at Wash. U., Gus Schonfeld was a young boy, a prisoner, at Auschwitz.
By Jeannette Cooperman
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A peek behind the curtain at one of St. Louis’ best-loved musical theater companies
By Margaret Bauer
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Forget the hand crank—The Gramophone has taken the effort out of the search for a diverse live music offering in St. Louis
By Ryan Miller
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Put the defibrillator away—St. Louis' club scene needs no artificial resuscitation
By Elizabeth Wolfson
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This humble marksman proves that home is where the dart is
By Byron Kerman
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In the dusk of their lives, our clean-living parents may be leaving us in the dust
By Margaret Bauer
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Those foul-mouthed puppets from Avenue Q have got nothing' on Anna Paniccia's creature creations
By Sarah Truckey
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A local farmer looks for love in reality TV
By Matthew Halverson
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Zootopia
By Stefene Russell
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Celebrated young dancer Antonio Douthit comes home to St. Louis with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, to give us a taste of what has New York critics raving
By Stefene Russell
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What can an ages-old spear point tell us about our ancestors? And more important, what can it tell us about ourselves?
By Dave Lowry
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At least not in Illinois. Trainers at Fairmount Park are facing an uncertain future
By Matthew Halverson
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We Like Mike
By Stefene Russell
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High-end Modernist houses in Grand Center? You'd better believe it
By Stefene Russell
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Playwright Cristina Pippa used oral histories and her own outsider's perspective to tell the story of the 50,000 Bosnians who now call St. Louis home
By Sarah Truckey
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Maybe you're familiar with the St. Louis tradition of "lawn geese"—concrete birds dressed in Uncle Sam suite, sparkly gowns or country bonnets, which stand sentinel on porches around the metro...
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Need to get a day off of work this spring? Talk to the expert on acting ill
By Byron Kerman
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We'll admit it: We're a little bitter about the fact that Philly beat us out for the new Major League Soccer team.
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But the young-at-heart founder of Dave Simon's Rock School also wants his students to learn a thing or two about growing up
By Sarah Truckey
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This little lifter shows us you don't have to be big to be strong
By Byron Kerman
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When is a test-drive really a stress drive? When the car costs $1.5 million
By Matt Crossman
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Yo-yo master Kevin Eulalia is in it to spin it this month
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Artistic Director for the Saint Louis Ballet
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This month's Master the Met gives "I'll take the stairs" a whole new meaning
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Dear NCAA: We'd like you to consider including these three head-to-head wrestling matchups in this month's wrestling championships at Scottrade...
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If the robots end up taking over, you can probably blame this North County teen
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For Rawle Jefferds and a handful of oyster aficionados, shucking and slurping is serious business
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Will a monstrous vocab finally score him a win?
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Dem trombones...
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The art of literary translation is famously underappreciated. But St. Louisans Philip Boehm and Pamela Carmell are feeling a little more love lately.
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For musician Mitsuyoshi Saito, the crystalline, ever-flowing sound of his cello is nothing less than a fountain of tranquility.
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A curator's-eye view of "Grounded," a video and photography collaboration between Ellen Curlee Gallery and St. Louis Earth Day.
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Seventeen years, 14 guitarists, seven keyboardists and eight drummers later, The Schwag keeps rollin' down Shakedown Street, paying tribute to the Grateful Dead
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Florals + high art = a good time
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Founder of EnTeam
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Trina Whitener makes animal noises for a living—and hangs out with birds that are almost bigger than she is.
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Thomas Crone on slowing down, growing up and mellowing out to mix tapes of yore
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One of Grand Center’s major corners—Grand and Olive—is getting a makeover and is poised to become its own little “intersection of art and life”
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In 2007, composer, musician, professor and publisher Barbara Harbach debuted a movie score, a stage musical and two new choral works. And that’s what she calls a slow year
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Send your kid to Wash. U.—just don't expect him to get a lot of reading done
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Now that the season's over, Monday morning quarterbacks want to lay the blame for the Rams' woes at the fledgling coach's feet. But the problems start a lot higher up the food chain.
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