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   Hot Contender: If looks count, Sarah Steelman may be your next governor

   By Kathleen McLaughlin

   Published: March 26, 2008

   For a politician looking to connect with the camouflage set, this would seem an ideal photo opportunity: fishermen standing shoulder-to-shoulder along the banks of an Ozark...

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   Czech, Mate

   By Alison Sieloff

   Published: March 26, 2008

   For many of us, food is not merely life-sustaining nourishment. It's a hobby. Or perhaps an obsession. Those who are food-passionate know that nothing is more fun than trying...

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   Born to the Stage

   By Dennis Brown

   Published: March 26, 2008

   A lifetime of memories. Detroit, 1975: Lynn Redgrave is on tour, costarring with George Rose and John Lithgow in the wicked comedy My Fat Friend. The Detroit audience doesn't...

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   City of Angels

   By Alison Sieloff

   Published: March 26, 2008

   It's easy to be jealous of angels. They get to wear comfy, floaty robes, they sport wings, and they have ample opportunities to help people in their times of need. While all of...

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   By Hook or by Crook

   By Paul Friswold

   Published: March 26, 2008

   The Aran Islands off the western coast of Ireland are sparsely populated, windswept and harsh. That last descriptor applies to their people as well. Pragmatic and blunt in all...

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   Boxing Day

   By Mark Dischinger

   Published: March 26, 2008

   It is almost as difficult to keep track of boxing titles as it is to remember the current name of the building that is now the Scottrade Center (1401 Clark Avenue) — they...

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   World, Meet Africa

   By Alison Sieloff

   Published: March 26, 2008

   By offering films made in countries from Cameroon to Zimbabwe, the African Film Festival helps bring the faraway continent just a little closer to home. The fest runs from...

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   Choose Your Illusion

   By Ms. Day

   Published: March 26, 2008

   St. Louis is quite the hotbed for magical activity, and Ms. Day couldn't be any happier about it. Of course, the International Brotherhood of Magicians is headquartered in our...

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   If You're so In-Klined . . .

   By Paul Friswold

   Published: March 26, 2008

   The Kevin Kline Awards exist to honor theater artists, but if nobody attends the awards show, does the honor really count? Yes — but it won't be as much fun for the...

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    From Good to Wurst

    By Brooke Foster

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Are you bummed by the news that there'll be no Strassenfest this year? Do you weep inconsolably when you hear the faint strains of a far-off oompah band, knowing that downtown...

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    Listen Up

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: March 26, 2008

    We're going to let you in on a little secret: Opera is the new film. Of course, we're not saying that movies aren't cool anymore; we just know opera's going to be big (again)....

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    Hungary for Life

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: March 26, 2008

    You may not know it, but your new favorite band is the Roby Lakatos Ensemble. A Hungarian Gypsy who plays the violin with unsurpassed passion and fluidity, Lakatos moves easily...

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    That's a Brutal Look

    By Mark Fischer

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Long before Sacha Baron Cohen popularized the "mankini" in Borat, an equally hairy, pony-tailed Sean Connery sported his own he-man bikini (accessorized by thigh-high leather...

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    From Russia with Love

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Richard Wirick and his wife adopted a Siberian daughter. As with many adoptive parents, the Wiricks felt it was important for her to know the culture of her native country....

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    Now. What?

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: March 26, 2008

    These are dangerous times, friend. Everybody's up on the stump shouting about the future and their plans for what will be, promising that change will manifest only through his...

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    Glow with the Flow

    By Jeanette Kozlowski

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Once upon a time, supermodels were foreign to this town. But last August, everything changed. In a possible charitable effort to help build St. Louis' haute-couture-wearing...

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    Tuning In

    By Jeanette Kozlowski

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Musicals remind us how thrilling life can be when somebody randomly breaks into song. Boastfully belted in the shower and in the car (or anyplace else you believe to be...

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    Mountain Time

    By James Weber

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Shortly after singer-songwriter John Denver's small plane fell out of the sky and ended his life, something unexpected began to happen: His beautiful and sensitive tunesmithing...

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    Stephen Merrill Block

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Author (and Washington University graduate) Blcok reads from and discusses The Story of Forgetting, his novel about a teenager and an elderly man who don't know one another but...

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    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra: Fidelio

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Beethoven's only opera, performed without dialogue; Christine Brewer and Celena Shafer are the sopranos. Fri., March 28, 8 p.m.; Sun., March 30, 3 p.m.; Sat., April...