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Spring Training Games Means Season Not To Far Away For Cardinals

By Randy Gardner Spring training! It’s hard to believe that opening day is just a few weeks away. Are you excited about that? When that happens it is almost like…

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The Dining Divas: This Month’s Restaurant of Choice Won’t Be Chosen Again

I’ve learned a lot about the Dining Divas in the 15 plus years I’ve been getting together with the group for dinner once a month. I’ve also learned a lot…

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Sports Complex decision soon

St. Louis Outlet Mall Site in Line For Nation’s Largest Sports Complex   BIG SPORTS’ POWERplex artist rendering of the landscape for a new outdoor/indoor sports complex, which when completed,…

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The Windy Zeitgeist of Oscar Picking

by Sandra Olmsted Predicting the Oscars is like throwing darts into the future without any inkling of how the winds of zeitgeist will be blowing by the final day that…

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‘Early Man’: A Wooly Mammoth of a Tale

by Sandra Olmsted In Early Man, director Nick Park and Aardman Animations, the creators of the Wallace and Gromit films among other stop-motion features, strut their stuff in a creation…

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Olympic Speeds and Stunts Always Impress the World

by Randy Gardner I wish the Olympics happened more than once every four years, actually they do if you count the alternate 2- year cycle of the winter and summer…

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‘My Funny Valentine’ at The Eagan Center Feb. 11

Join comedians Pat Hazell and Dena Blizzard for an evening of hilarious and heartwarming stand-up comedy playing at the Gary R. Gaydos Auditorium in the Florissant Civic Center on Feb.…

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A Boomer’s Journal: Valentine’s Day Could be More Than Day of Wine and Roses

By Tom Anselm Hey, friends, howsa’bout something different for Valentine’s Day this year? Talking mostly to the guys out there, especially the more adventurous of them. If you are anything…

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‘Winchester’: Ghostly History & Sketchy Travelogue

   By Sandra Olmsted In the directing brothers Michael and Peter Spierig’s Winchester, these German-Australian filmmakers explore the history of the famed Winchester House and provide more history, if movies…

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