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• ‘The Fairy’ brings magic to the big screen May 10, 2012
  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 you like the outsider […]
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• UMSL’s Shear Institute the flash point of state budget debate May 9, 2012
  JEFFERSON CITY • For 16 years, a little-noticed institute at the University of Missouri-St. Louis has been trying to increase the number of women in governmental, civic and policymaking roles. The institute, which holds leadership seminars and helps women network, is named for the late Sue Shear, a Clayton Democrat who served in the Missouri […]
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• Phoenix Coldon update: Parents continue search for missing St. Louis County woman May 9, 2012
  BY MARLON A. WALKER • mwalker@post-dispatch.com | Posted: Saturday, May 5, 2012 12:15 am SPANISH LAKE • In the foyer of Lawrence and Goldia Coldon’s modest home, a Christmas tree stands lined with lights and ornaments. Outside, green holiday trim adorns a pillar on the porch. Never mind that it’s well into spring. The decorations […]
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• UMSL looks to recreate Delmar Loop in north St. Louis County May 9, 2012
  BY TIM BARKER – tbarker@post-dispatch.com – Posted: Friday, May 4, 2012 8:45 pm ST. LOUIS COUNTY • A north St. Louis County dream of turning a stretch of Natural Bridge Road into something along the lines of the Delmar Loop took a step forward Friday, with the announcement of funding for the project’s first phase. During […]
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• UMSL program adds history links to city’s website May 9, 2012
  NORMANDY – Posters, photos, information and links about the history of Normandy are now on the city’s website thanks to a University of Missouri-St. Louis honors program. Normandy was a focus of “Where we Live: An Historic Study of Neighborhoods,” and in one of the program’s final classes, nine students made a presentation to the […]
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• Program at University of Missouri-St. Louis imperiled in state budget process May 9, 2012
  BY ELIZABETH CRISP • ecrisp@post-dispatch.com  | Posted: Friday, May 4, 2012 12:30 am JEFFERSON CITY • A program offered through the University of Missouri-St. Louis appears to have gotten tangled up in the state budgeting process and could be at risk. Some senators want to eliminate the Sue Shear Institute for Women in Public Life. […]
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• ‘Memphis’ musical sparks in high-voltage birth of rock tale at Fox May 2, 2012
  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 first white DJs to play […]
  Cate Marquis
• St. Louis Ballet’s “Swan Lake” delights young and old at Touhill PAC May 1, 2012
  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” an experience not to be missed. Yet unlike Tchaikovsky’s […]
  Cate Marquis
• Consilience Conference brings world’s top evolutionist E.O. Wilson to UMSL May 1, 2012
  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 – St. Louis hosted the “Consilience Conference: Evolution in Bi […]
  Cate Marquis
• Amnesty International-UMSL joins the effort to bring awareness of widespread violence against women May 1, 2012
  On Thursday, April 26, Amnesty International-University of Missouri — St. Louis hosted a screening of the award-winning documentary “Saving Face” as part of their new campaign to raise awareness of violence against women worldwide. The Oscar-winning documentary, directed by Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, brings to light the horrific reality of socia […]
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