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1. Feature

   Fist City: Rockwell Knuckles aims to punch through St. Louis hip-hop's glass ceiling

   By Keegan Hamilton

   Published: February 27, 2008

   Editor's note: To download mp3 files of Rockwell Knuckles posted at the RFT music blog, A to Z, click here. To see a slideshow that accompanies this story, click...

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   Murphy Is Law

   By James Weber

   Published: February 27, 2008

   Serve the public trust, protect the innocent, uphold the law and blow some crap up, Murphy! RoboCop quite plainly rules. Even trimmed down from its original X rating, the film...

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   Summer Dreams

   By Alison Sieloff

   Published: February 27, 2008

   Let's think back to last summer: Those were the days, right? All of the carefree evenings we spent outdoors, just sipping a drink on the patio of the Boathouse in Forest Park...

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   Frog-gone It!

   By Paul Friswold

   Published: February 27, 2008

   You may be aware of the ongoing honeybee crisis, because when it comes to honey you stay informed. But there are other organisms (ones that don't secrete delicious treats)...

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   Hare Today...

   By Mark Fischer

   Published: February 27, 2008

   With Easter fast approaching, theatergoers can get a jump on rabbit season with the Theatre Guild of Webster Groves' production of Harvey, which is about Elwood, a good-natured...

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   Stop Searching

   Your Real Love is here

   By Alison Sieloff

   Published: February 27, 2008

   Conception is a tricky thing. Doesn't it seem like those who want to get pregnant can't, and the people who aren't trying, well, they're the ones with buns in their ovens? The...

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   More Morpho, More Juice

   By Mark Dischinger

   Published: February 27, 2008

   A blue morpho isn't a drink even though it sounds like some devilish trick of mixology. The Common Blue Morpho is actually a butterfly. A big blue butterfly with mottled brown...

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   Power to the Puppets

   By Paul Friswold

   Published: February 27, 2008

   Everything I need to know about life, I learn from puppets. The happy and helpful denizens of Sesame Street, the creepy and wise Letter People, The Dark Crystal's moral Mystics...

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   Funny Business

   By Alison Sieloff

   Published: February 27, 2008

   What is funny, exactly? Your uncle's toupee might not be as amusing to your aunt as it is to you. A stand-up comedian who tells what are basically hoosier jokes may not be...

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    Eagles Are in Fashion

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: February 27, 2008

    You've known that the eagles have been back in town for a while, but have you gone to visit them? No. And why not? You're probably thinking that nothing has changed since last...

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    Factory Reject

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: February 27, 2008

    Surrounding himself with artists, actors and interesting people of various talents was Andy Warhol's forte; he gave them a place to live and play, and encouraged them in their...

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    They've Got Questions

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: February 27, 2008

    If those bar trivia nights you frequent are the regular-season events, then the Sports Trivia Championship is the World Series of question-and-answer competitions. With around...

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    New Adventures in High Frye

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: February 27, 2008

    Sean Frye describes his own work as "a hybrid of fine art and graphic illustration." While his paintings are representational art in the strict sense of the term, Frye...

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    Charlie in Charge

    By Jeanette Kozlowski

    Published: February 27, 2008

    People can't help but love the boy in the golden shirt with a black zigzag who never seems to catch a break. And that's because we can all relate to Charlie Brown: He makes us...

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    Art in the Now

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: February 27, 2008

    One of the current exhibits at Washington University's Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum is On the Margins, a show that features the work of ten artists from around the globe who...

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    The Promises of Palmer

    By Amy George

    Published: February 27, 2008

    Most of us hear "poetry reading," and our mouths go dry: We lick our lips, lower our eyes, and mutter excuses of sick grandmothers, dogs to walk and evidence of flu symptoms....

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    Good Night, and Good Luck

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: February 27, 2008

    The frictions of mother-daughter relationships are the stuff of dramatic gold, from the maternal shame that drives Stephen King's titular Carrie into madness to the hard...

18. Art

    Factory Ghoul: Cindy Tower's large-scale oil paintings illuminate local relics of the industrial age

    By Malcolm Gay

    Published: February 27, 2008

    Like its East St. Louis location, the Armour meatpacking plant here has seen better days. Once a steam-powered marvel at the vanguard of assembly-line slaughterhouses, the...

19. News Real

    Icing the Cupcakes: Rachel Watson rouses racial emotions with her sizzling editorial in University City High School's student newspaper

    By Aimee Levitt

    Published: February 27, 2008

    It all started with a late-night phone conversation. Rachel Watson and her good friend Adrian Washington argued about everything, from the serious to the trivial. One night...

20. Unreal

    Unreal FIXes a hangover, tries out for Mensa and attempts to pick up a pickup artist

    Published: February 27, 2008

    Unreal generally subscribes to the (Groucho) Marxist theory of club-joining: We would not want to belong to any club that would have us as a member. Particularly if membership...