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Ten Things to Do Under $10 This Weekend in St. Louis, November 20-22, 2009

2009-11-20 16:09:09

You have a weekend, then a short week, and before you know it, you'll be in line outside the electronics store at 4 a.m. waiting to get flat-screen TV at deep, deeeep discount. So please, enjoy th...

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WTF Was Jeff Smith Thinking Last Summer? STL Beacon Reveals All

2009-11-20 14:45:08

In an interview with the St. Louis Beacon, conducted via text message (oh, brave new world!), disgraced former state senator Jeff Smith shares his perspective on the revelations of last summer wh...

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Vigilante Website Out to Destroy Stltoday.com Editor Kurt Greenbaum

2009-11-20 13:55:12

Somehow we knew it would come to this. An anonymous website called "Kurt Greenbaum is a Pussy" (www.kurtgreenbaumisapussy.com) popped up yesterday with a mission -- it seems -- to destroy the ca...

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Grrrr! Local Pet Spa's Call to Arms Has Petsmart Chain Licking its Chops for Battle

2009-11-20 13:00:34

The Internets are abuzz over a St. Louis pet spa owner's call to arms via social media. Yesterday a little after two o'clock, Mark Langevin, a co-owner of A Walk in the Park Grooming, a new pet...

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Senator Asks Wash U. and Other Med Schools Their Policies on Ghostwriting

2009-11-20 12:04:03

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) this week mailed a letter to ten of the nation's top medical schools asking for their policies on ghostwriting. The senator -- the ranking member of the Senate Fi...

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Alyssa Bustamante: A Case Study in Why Not to Let Your Kids Go "Emo"?

2009-11-20 10:45:46

By now you've heard the story of Alyssa Bustamante. The 15-year-old from outside Jefferson City is accused of digging a grave and then strangling and stabbing to death her nine-year-old neighbo...

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Girldrive Author Nona Willis Aronowitz Visits St. Louis This Weekend to Plug Book at Left Bank

2009-11-20 09:50:55

In the fall of 2006, shortly after the death of her mother, the feminist writer and critic Ellen Willis, Nona Willis Aronowitz met up with her friend Emma Bee Bernstein for brunch."I'd been bombar...

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"Very Conservative" Lad Forming Newer, Younger TEA Party

2009-11-20 08:54:51

You know how it is each April. You'd think your kids would be happy. Summer is just around the corner. Little League season is starting up. In short, there's a lot to look forward to. But no. A...

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Photos from Last Night's St. Louis Social Media Club Meetup

2009-11-20 08:43:16

Last night about one hundred members of the Social Media Club of St. Louis gathered for another monthly meeting this time with guest speaker David Siteman Garland at Moulin Events on Chouteau...

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Unreal Surveys Stltoday.com "Pussy" Fallout and Asks: "Who's the Pussy?"

2009-11-19 18:13:42

Like so many of our fellow layabouts who have nothing better to do, Unreal has looked on slack-jawed and mesmerized over the past week as Stltoday.com social media editor Kurt Greenbaum ...

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Effort to Overturn St. Louis Smoking Ban Would Focus on Casino Exemption

2009-11-19 15:53:50

St. Louis' most tireless smoking-ban opponent Bill Hannegan stopped by the Riverfront Times the other day. In so doing, Hannegan hinted how his Keep St. Louis Free plans to topple the ban in th...

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Alderwoman Takes on Downtown "Racket"; Says Trash Trucks Too Noisy

2009-11-19 14:01:34

St. Louis alderwoman Kacie Starr Triplett this morning introduced legislation regulating the hours that trash trucks can haul waste from businesses located near residential property. On her blog...

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Overhauled South Grand Wins Praise from Urban Planners for Being Completely Great Street

2009-11-19 12:38:48

Astute city-watchers will have noticed some changes on the six-block stretch of South Grand Boulevard between Arsenal and Utah in the past few months: fewer driving lanes, new stoplight patterns, ...

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Steve Brown's Decision to Wear the Wire "Came Without Hesitation"

2009-11-19 11:45:47

In a letter to U.S. District Judge Carol Jackson, former state rep. Steve Brown's wife, Rebecca Brown, stated she is "deeply disappointed" by her husband's illegal act but proud about how he han...

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Christmas is Coming and the Deer are Getting Fat...in Town & Country...Where They're Baiting Deer Prior to December Hunt

2009-11-19 10:45:37

Contractors for the city of Town & Country began baiting deer this month, setting up food stands throughout the west county suburb.Town & Country is believed to have a deer herd numbering...

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