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‘The Fairy’ brings magic to the big screen
If you love absurd, magical, visual comedy, run now to see "The Fairy" at Plaza Frontenac Cinema, while you still can. "The Fairy" delightfully combines clever visual humor a la Buster Keaton with a dry, absurd wit to create a confection that is at once magical, funny and sweetly romantic. If [...]
‘Memphis’ musical sparks in high-voltage birth of rock tale at Fox
The Tony Award-winning musical "Memphis" delivers a wild ride of dancing and singing, staged with a high-voltage wow factor, telling a story of the birth of rock'n'roll. The musical is playing the Fox Theater May 1-13. The story was inspired a real 1950s Memphis DJ, Dewey Philips, one of the [...]
St. Louis Ballet’s “Swan Lake” delights young and old at Touhill PAC
If one were to see only one ballet in one's life, that ballet should be "Swan Lake." "Swan Lake" is regarded as ballet's greatest and most popular production. Tchaikovsky's beautiful, haunting music combined with the ballet's mysterious, romantic story and its famous choreography make "Swan Lake" [...]
Consilience Conference brings world’s top evolutionist E.O. Wilson to UMSL
What do biology, social sciences and humanities in common? Evolution, according to the cross-disciplinary field of consilience. Consilience is "the agreement of two or more inductions drawn from different sets of data; concurrence." The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Missouri [...]
“The Raven” falls short of promise, despite strong performance by Cusack
A historical fiction film about Edgar Allen Poe and starring John Cusack sounded like an idea with some promise. Poe, the inventor of the mystery story, seemed to offer some ripe material for a historical fiction film that draws on the author's works and tragic life. Casting Cusack as Poe seemed [...]