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Reassessing SciFest at St. Louis Science Center
SciFest 2010 takes place next week at the St. Louis Science Center, October 12-17. This is the third year for the international science festival at our Science Center, so it might merit both a preview and a reassessment of the local festival's success so far. More than three years ago, the St. [...]
‘The Town’ is smart and gritty
“The Town” offers a taut, intelligent, emotionally-powerful tale of bank robbers from the tough Boston neighborhood known as Charlestown. It is a rare combination, an engrossing film balancing bank-robbing action and a personal exploration of the consequences of growing up in a toxic [...]
Playing shell games with BP spill oil
A government report released in August concluded most of the oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon spill was now gone. After a three-month long gusher, the idea that an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil had vanished so quickly seemed extremely unlikely. Many scientists and the general public [...]
‘Machete’ slices and dices with comic edge
Two words sum up “Machete:” bloody funny. Both in the British slang sense of (expletive) funny and as in, bloody and funny. Unlike “Grindhouse's” faithful recreation of '70s drive-in movies, “Machete” captures both the genre's feel and its fun - and funny - side. It goes over-the-top [...]
ABC brings Legacy to UM-St. Louis
“Legacy at UMSL,” organized by the Associated Black Collegians of the University of Missouri-St. Louis was held last Thursday in the Pilot House. This event was ABC’s fourth event for the group’s welcome week. “‘Legacy at UMSL’ is not just for African Americans. It is for anyone [...]