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Ludo is fired up and ready to play on the national stage
By Kathleen McLaughlin
Published: February 20, 2008
[For additional outtakes from staff photographer Jennifer Silverberg's day with Ludo, click here]. A mass of arctic air has made its descent into Des Moines when Ludo...
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Old Wood
By Paul Friswold
Published: February 20, 2008
One of the great gifts science bequeaths mankind is the ability to look into the past. Take, for example, the Danville, Illinois, fossilized forest. Covering 25 square...
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Cup to Date
By Alison Sieloff
Published: February 20, 2008
The Young Friends of the Missouri Botanical Garden (4344 Shaw Boulevard; www.mobot.org) want to see to it that when you hear the term "cupping," you no longer just associate it...
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Boat People
By Paul Friswold
Published: February 20, 2008
Pierre-Auguste Renoir's painting Luncheon of the Boating Party captures a magical moment in time. A dozen friends of the artist lounge and laugh at a Seine-side restaurant on a...
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It's Getting Chott in Here
By Alison Sieloff
Published: February 20, 2008
Bill Chott has done better than your average local boy made good. The comedian has several Saturday Night Live credits on his list of accomplishments, and he's even appeared on...
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Your Prints Has Come
By Christian Schaeffer
Published: February 20, 2008
Printmakers often feel like the whipping boys (and girls) of the fine-arts community. By nature their work defies the "one-of-a-kind" cachet that makes most collectors swoon....
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Eyes on the Prize
By Alison Sieloff
Published: February 20, 2008
For 80 years now, through tough times and years of prosperity, Oscar has soldiered on with his sword in hand. Despite his small stature, he offers tremendous honor and prestige...
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Who Is In, Who Is Out
By Paul Friswold
Published: February 20, 2008
It starts at a party, just as all tragedies do. Charlie's an actor who hasn't had a job in years, but his wife, Stella, supports him nicely. Clea's a hot little naïf half...
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Gimme a "V"
By Alison Sieloff
Published: February 20, 2008
Ah, the vagina. Called everything from "Virginia" to "vajayjay" (and rarely by its proper name), the vagina is an often unexplored area of intrigue and mystery — at least...
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You Better Ax Somebody
By Paul Friswold
Published: February 20, 2008
Everybody is familiar with the ax murderess Lizzie Borden. She's typecast in our collective memory as the classic example of a well-kept New England spinster, unloved and cold...
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Cymbals, Unconquered
By Paul Friswold
Published: February 20, 2008
William Hooker (pictured) plays drums like the universe throws dice: What seems random and formless is actually a pattern that approaches infinity — and in the aftermath,...
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Kubrick, Brick by Brick
By Mark Fischer
Published: February 20, 2008
Few filmmakers are as revered as Stanley Kubrick. This Friday, February 22, the Ethical Society of St. Louis launches a series celebrating the man and his works with the...
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They'll Stop the World
By Amy George
Published: February 20, 2008
Are you interested in enriching your cultural horizons but feeling that most places with the title of "museum" will bore you into an uncivilized state? Then check out the free...
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From Russia with Lust
By Paul Friswold
Published: February 20, 2008
A Friday night without an orgy is a Friday night wasted. There — I've said it. Oh, the town fathers can cluck their tongues and wag their heads in approbation, but if you...
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Like Sands Through the Hourglass
By Ms. Day
Published: February 20, 2008
While in college, Ms. Day was very devoted to her studies, just so long as they didn't interfere with her Days of Our Lives time. She would go so far as to schedule her classes...
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Have a Salchow
By Jeanette Kozlowski
Published: February 20, 2008
Figure skaters spend the first part of their lives practicing tirelessly to perfect jumps and spins in the hope of landing a spot on the Olympic team. Once the dream becomes...
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Pearls on Film
By Anna Teekell Hays
Published: February 20, 2008
The Academic Film Archive of North America (AFA) calls 16 mm academic films "the hidden corner of North American cinema." So it's particularly apropos that the Ciné 16...
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South American Sips
By Brooke Foster
Published: February 20, 2008
What can you expect from a place called Celebrity Chef Kitchens? Will Mario Batali wander in sporting his trademark orange clogs and make something awesome out of beef cheeks?...
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News Real
The bench empties at controversial Milestone Christian Academy
By Kristen Hinman
Published: February 20, 2008
Milestone Christian Academy raised many eyebrows last fall for acquiring high school basketball talent from St. Louis- and Kansas City-area schools. But now the varsity bench...
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Sidebar
Is a Wash. U. dean destroying alumni records and making unjust department cuts?
Aimee Levitt
Published: February 20, 2008
Students, staff and faculty say Mary Sansalone, dean of the Washington University School of Engineering, has been angering them ever since she stepped onto campus in the fall...
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