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1. Feature

   Red Alert: Everything they really don't want you to know about those pesky traffic-light cameras

   By Chad Garrison

   Published: March 5, 2008

   The twenty defendants who trudged into St. Louis City's dingy municipal court building this past Valentine's Day shared two things in common: One, they all received a citation...

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   Continental Divide

   By Brooke Foster

   Published: March 5, 2008

   Truth is almost always stranger, murkier and more poignant than fiction, so more moviegoers are turning to documentary film for insight into a complicated world. The Africa...

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   Good for the Ganser

   By Paul Friswold

   Published: March 5, 2008

   If we told you livewire lesbian Lisa Ganser will be showing off her shorts at 7 p.m. tonight at the Mad Art Gallery (2727 South 12th Street), would that be something that...

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   Billy Idol Gets It

   By Paul Friswold

   Published: March 5, 2008

   Never doubt the power of the '80s. They were Day-Glo, they were synthetic, and they reeked of AquaNet and money, but the '80s remain the fertile crescent for modern...

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   Elbows off the Table

   By Paul Friswold

   Published: March 5, 2008

   Ask someone to name a fact or two about presidential dining, and he or she is most likely to regurgitate something about that time the elder Bush became famously ill at a state...

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   Froggone It!

   By Anna Teekell Hays

   Published: March 5, 2008

   If you're a careful reader of this paper (and of this section in particular), you already know that 2008 is the Year of the Frog — not per the Chinese calendar, of...

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   Ballet Two Ways

   By Ms. Day

   Published: March 5, 2008

   Ms. Day, a student of the balletic arts, is hard-pressed to think of a dance form that's more difficult to learn. The terms are all in French, which actually doesn't matter as...

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   Wherefore Art Thou, Dromio?

   By Christian Schaeffer

   Published: March 5, 2008

   Many of Shakespeare's plays walk a thin line between comedy and tragedy. Most times the distinction boils down to a central question: Will the ruse (or confusion, or deception)...

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   Have a Ball!

   By Jeanette Kozlowski

   Published: March 5, 2008

   Like the Olympics and other high-profile biennial events, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis' Dada Ball only appears on calendars once every two years. Named after the...

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    We're Working on Our Fitness

    Be our witness

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Walking to raise money for cancer is good. But participating in a fitness workshop for breast-cancer awareness is awesome! Find out for yourself during Celebrate Fitness, which...

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    Link to the Past

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: March 5, 2008

    You already know one work designed by architect Theodore C. Link — that would be St. Louis Union Station — and today, you have a chance to check out a few more....

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    Makin' History at Herstory

    By Nicole Beckert

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Is there a better way to celebrate Women's History Month than with other women? No. And the Herstory Weekend at Mosaics on Main (124 East Main Street, Belleville, Illinois)...

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    Venus de St. Louis

    By Amy George

    Published: March 5, 2008

    While Freud's theories on psychosexual development make for an interesting conversation over a bottle of pinot, many of his concepts are considered flawed and no longer...

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    Ranting and Raving

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Even though Saint Louis University wouldn't let Una, a women's group at the school, stage A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant and a Prayer: Writings to Stop Violence Against Women...

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    Mexican Getaway

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Remember Valentine's Day? And you promised that special someone you'd whisk them away for the weekend to a romantic destination? You screwed that up pretty thoroughly, failing...

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    How Orange Is Our Valley?

    By Jason Toon

    Published: March 5, 2008

    All is forgiven, Missouri Valley Conference. It hurt to watch you flirt with Omaha, Des Moines and Kansas City. But we knew, in the end, you'd keep the Missouri Valley...

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    Aim High, Americans

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Handsome and dashing, the dark-haired man sings with powerful melancholy, "The country is not what it was," lamenting the passing of the good, old days. Do you empathize with...

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    Keen on Green

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Attending all of those Earth Day celebrations has finally started to make a difference — you're seeing green. Or trying to, at least. You've bought the reusable grocery...

19. News Real

    Seeing Red: Partners battle over a Wash. Ave. eatery's ownership

    By Kristen Hinman

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Mortgage broker Kirk Apazeller says he is the rightful owner of Red, the six-month-old eatery on Washington Avenue. So does landscaper Derek Onstott. Apazeller says he designed...

20. Unreal

    Inspired by Don King's words and Saturn's rings, Unreal tries out for Jeopardy!

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Question Authority Last week's Mensa adventure left Unreal restless. The test somehow lacked drama. Nobody can tell you're a Mensan just by looking at you. But if we could...