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RFT readers debate Teabonics and speculate on splinters at the City Museum

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Published May 5, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

DAILY RFT, APRIL 28, 2010 ... TEABONICS: SIGN OF THE TIMES ... Get off your high horse : What's your point ["Presenting Teabonics, the New Dialect of Political Discourse," Aimee Levitt]? At least these people have the willingness, energy and desire to create their own signs, rath ...

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Run Away With The Circus. Stay Home.

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Published Jan. 12, 2010 at 7:00 a.m.

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Regular readers may recall that I had a post on New Year's Day about our First Night festivities and particularly the troupe of young acrobats known as the St. Louis Arches ... A couple of days later, I got an email from Jessica Hentoff, the artistic and executive director of Circus Harmony, the school and performance group that teaches "the art of life through circus education." There's a circus school in St. Louis! Jessica invited me to one of their rehearsals and shows at the wacky City

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Thespians on Wheels: Joan Lipkin's DisAbility Project is on a roll

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Published Nov. 12, 2009 at 1:00 a.m.

There are many ways to fight for social change: marching, shouting, stripping. Joan Lipkin has tried them all, most memorably in 2004 when she enlisted 51 other women to help her protest the war in Iraq by lying down stark naked on the roof of the City Museum in the shape of a peace sign ...

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Love Among The Reptiles

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Published July 17, 2009 at 6:30 a.m.

.I think you could get busted in St. Louis for this 50 years ago. Whatever it is was designed by local mad genius Bob Cassilly. He's the guy who runs our very odd but fascinating City Museum. Best I can figure out is that he designed the area in this photo as a bizarre little park on a bike trail along the Mississippi, through the industrial badlands north of the Arch. These two are prominent residents ... Is this love, sex, communication or what? Actually, it kind of reminds me of a mother bird

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Balancing Act

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Published June 29, 2009 at 11:00 p.m.

A couple of toes holding the show show in perfect balance. And all while adjusting her dress and ... For the full photographic glory and the rest of the text, you know where to go. The Original Cycle Chic awaits ...

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