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        The year's 11 most memorable arts moments FST's latest goes backstage with a string quartet...
       
      
        By Amanda Schurr
      
      
      The List: Your weekly planner p. XX It may seem difficult to select a roundup of the top 11 artistic moments in the SRQ this year -- especially since, well, there are fewer of them, at least formally speaking. Event cancellations, slowing gallery traffic and less pocket change to fill those theater seats were felt throughout the community. But yes, Virginia, sure as there is a Santa Claus, Zen-like moments of artistic and creative fervor survive. Below, a few nods
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    <pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        By Chuck Shepherd
      
      
      LEAD STORY: The Christmas Nativity scenes in northeast Spain&#39;s Catalonia region have, for three centuries, featured not only Mary and the Three Wise Men but the ubiquitous &quot;caganer&quot; icon, always portrayed with pants down answering a call of nature (and often so obscured in the scene as to popularize Where&#39;s-Waldo-type guessing by children). The origin of the caganer (literally, &quot;pooper&quot;) is unclear, but some regard it merely as symbolic of equality (in that everyone has bowel movements). Catalonia is now
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    <pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        By Chuck Shepherd
      
      
      LEAD STORY: The voters of Sodaville (pop. 290) elected Thomas Brady Harrington, 33, mayor in November, notwithstanding his criminal rap sheet showing robbery, eluding a police officer, felon in possession of a gun and other crimes (with his electoral success perhaps due to voters&#39; confusing him with his father, a respected town elder). And the voters of Silverton (pop. 7,400) elected as mayor Stu Rasmussen, 60, an openly transgendered, longtime resident who previously served as mayor while a man but
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    <pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        By Chuck Shepherd
      
      
      LEAD STORY: The Brazilian designer Lucia Lorio introduced women&#39;s lingerie in October containing a global positioning device to enable the wearer to be tracked by satellite. The creator said the password-protected lace bodice would make it easier for women kidnapped by thugs or terrorists to be located and rescued. Critics called it a virtual chastity belt, primarily of service to insecure males curious to know where their women are. (However, the wearer can manually turn the device off.) Another anti-terror
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    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        Round 2: When does human life begin?...
       
      
        By Cecil Adams
      
      
      I was shocked by your highly ignorant column on &quot;when life begins&quot; [October 24]. You have a very conservative approach, and a misogynistic one at that. I appreciate your attempt at explaining brain waves. But what your article lacked was a woman&#39;s right to her body, and you had an even more disturbing view on rape. Apparently, you need to take a woman&#39;s course or ethics course. You included research on a boy&#39;s soul being present at 40 days and
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    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        By Chuck Shepherd
      
      
      LEAD STORY: When a four-bedroom house inhabited by 50 tenants partially collapsed in October in Honolulu, at least 10 of the residents said they had been pressured to let the property manager give them experimental &quot;stem-cell&quot; injections. Manager Daniel Cunningham, 56 and a de-licensed chiropractor, said he has been injecting the substance, phenol, into himself for years, to treat gnarled hands (though the hands appeared to a Honolulu Advertiser reporter to be deteriorating to the point where Cunningham wears socks
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    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>What&amp;#39;s the deal with so many abandoned babies in cartoons?</title>
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        By Cecil Adams
      
      
      Having grown up on Looney Tunes, Tom &amp; Jerry and similar cartoons, I can&#39;t tell you how many I&#39;ve watched involving a baby left on a doorstep. Did people really do this back when these cartoons were made? Was there a rash of baby abandonment somewhere back in the &#39;40s, &#39;50s and &#39;60s that cartoonists decided to satirize?-- Sarah from WY Excuse me, Sarah, but I&#39;m not sure I&#39;m getting this. You think infant abandonment is some bizarro phenomenon dreamed
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    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        By Chuck Shepherd
      
      
      LEAD STORY: Donna and Joel Brinkle of Deltona, Fla., raised a family and held respectable jobs until, in the 1990s, they declared themselves a sovereign nation and stopped paying taxes. Subsequently, the county took their home, and they now appear to be living on the handouts of their son and their church, but they have become irritations by filing property liens against government officials (including, once, President Clinton) who fail to recognize their independent authority. Once, they tried to buy
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Can tapeworms help you lose weight? Can tapeworms help you lose weight?</title>
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        By Cecil Adams
      
      
      In her book Seabiscuit Laura Hillenbrand states that in the 1930s racehorse jockeys trying to lose weight would swallow a capsule containing a tapeworm egg. The worms would then mature in the jockeys&#39; stomachs and eat whatever food was dropped their way. I&#39;m sure you&#39;ve heard this same story in connection with the great opera singer Maria Callas or about other celebrities with a weight problem. When I expressed doubt, I was told I&#39;m full of worms because Hillenbrand wouldn&#39;t
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    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>What happens online should stay online</title>
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        By Dan Savage
      
      
      Bosses, mind your own business! Savage Love So I have been in a relationship with the same guy since I was about 16. It&#39;s been a little over four years now, but I came out to him a year ago about the fact that I&#39;m bisexual, which he has no problem with. So since then, I have had wild fantasies about a threesome with a really hot girl. But it&#39;s a lot harder to arrange that than it seems. Do
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    <pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        How to be a skank without breaking hearts...
       
      
        By Dan Savage
      
      
      Sordid affairs Savage Love I am a 22-year-old woman, generally happy, but I have a problem with cheating. My peers seem to have no problems staying faithful, but I do. I have never been faithful to anyone, and I have had many relationships with men and women. Some found out, some didn&#39;t. I have finally found someone I feel like I can spend the rest of my life with, I am happy with him on every level, but I still
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    <pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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