July 2011
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WatchJournalists for Joplin • Post-Dispatch photographers, the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission and Schiller’s Camera are sponsoring a silent auction tomorrow night to raise money for Joplin. See the photos and bid from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Regional Arts Council, 6128 Delmar Blvd. Free parking is available behind the Pageant, which is across the street from RAC. Admission is free, but donations...
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“An inmate at the City Workhouse was still on the lam Thursday morning after...”
– Yep, he walked out of jail. (Then climbed the razor-wire fences.) Allen Brown Jr., 29, of Creve Coeur is still on the lam. Two corrections officers have been put on leave for not locking the gate.
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Chill with the Weatherbird →
I’m hosting a tweetup (tumblrup?) next week — you should be there, too! It’ll be at Chill in Clayton — that’s right, a tweetup with frozen yogurt.
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“This big crash, I thought was an explosion. It was like a blur. I reached up,...”
– Margaret Shofner, 80, was sitting at a kitchen table at her grandson’s house, eating a doughnut with her 5-year-old great-granddaughter when the arrow lodged in her face about 8:30 Tuesday morning. That arrow had traveled more than 100 yards — through the backyard of Robert...
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Done: Colby Rasmus, Blue Jay →
Red bird, blue bird • The Cardinals have traded center fielder Colby Rasmus and relievers P.J. Walters, Brian Tallet and Trever Miller to the Toronto Blue Jays in a multi-player package including starting pitcher Edwin Jackson, relievers Octavio Dotel and Marc Rzepczynski and outfielder Corey Patterson, according to sources familiar with the situation. An announcement is pending.
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WatchPearl Jammin’ • “Pearl Jam 20” will be shown at the Tivoli Theatre for one night: 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Sept. 20. The documentary, directed by Cameron Crowe, looks at the pioneering grunge rock band; Pearl Jam’s debut album “Ten” was released Aug. 27, 1991.
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“My ultimate nerd fantasy is to have a library with a rolling ladder. I’ll...”
– Under cover • Matt Roeser on his love for books, and their covers, which kicked off his New Cover project. Roeser started by redesigning the covers of books he thought deserved better for fun. Then literary agent Luke Janklow saw the cover Roeser redesigned for “Shades of Grey” by Jasper...
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WatchIf you can’t stand the heat • We got out of the kitchen, and took our baking to a car in the Post-Dispatch parking lot. After almost four hours, we had cookies. Sure, they were a little gooey in the center — definitely a chewy cookie, not a crisp cookie — but as soon as we took them inside, all two dozen cookies disappeared quickly.
Lessons learned:
Smaller cookies probably...
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Photos of our cookie baking experiment →
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“106.3”
– The heat is on • At 4 p.m., the official temperature at Lambert Airport was 99.0 degrees. The heat index, though, was 106.3. And rising.
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Welcome, KMOV! →
It looks like our media friends over at KMOV are testing out Tumblr — welcome! (They aren’t following anyone yet, and haven’t posted for a couple of days. I hope we haven’t scared them off.)
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“Two more seconds and he would have been drinking water. The guy was gonna drown,...”
– Dramatic rescue • St. Louis firefighter Steven J. Nienhaus spotted a white pickup truck lose control near Gravois Road, roll down an embankment into the River Des Peres about 7:15 Sunday morning. Nienhaus jumped out of his truck, dived into the water and rescued the unconscious driver. “I just...
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Us, worst dressed? →
GQ says St. Louis is No. 10 on its list of the 40 worst dressed cities. I can only assume they do not appreciate my very fashionable bow ties.
