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Stay inside a pyramid, experience Elvis, party on Beale in Memphis

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Driving to (or through) Memphis, you can’t help but notice the giant pyramid. Standing 321 feet tall, it towers over most of downtown as an homage to the city’s Egyptian connections.

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Benjamin Hochman: Texting baseball and testing baseball — a look at the lockout from on-the-fence fans

It’s happening, in real time, on my text chain — and perhaps on yours, too? In just the first week after Major League Baseball canceled some 2022 games, casual fans are second-guessing the sport. During the lockout, they’re testing their allegiances, they’re asking tough questions, they’re wondering why they truly…

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Blues come up small in Big Apple

NEWARK, N.J. – Perhaps the Blues picked up a postcard or a souvenir. Maybe took a tour to the Statue of Liberty, got a nice dinner or two.

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Editorial: Long-overdue federal anti-lynching law finally appears headed for passage

At last, Congress appears poised to designate lynching as a federal hate crime punishable with enhanced penalties. The House last month passed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act with just three “no” votes. That’s three too many, but the potential for unanimous passage in the Senate could still send a strong…

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Review: NBC miniseries ‘The Thing About Pam’ is smug, smarmy and so, so dull

Condescension is an ephemeral concept; it exists only as an idea. You cannot see it, feel it, touch it or taste it.

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How Renee Zellweger's obsession with Pam Hupp saga led to new NBC series

ST. LOUIS — Renee Zellweger’s dog needed a new hip.

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Benjamin Hochman: A gold medal human, Jackie Joyner-Kersee devotes her life to bettering lives in East St. Louis

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — One of 10 children from a single-parent household here, Dominic Williams could have become a statistic. Instead, he works professionally in statistics.

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Rangers snap Blues' point streak with third period outurst, 5-3

NEW YORK — The Blues spent much of February beating up on the NHL’s weak sisters. On Wednesday they took on one of its big brothers. Different challenge, different result.

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Jeff Gordon: Baseball owners must partner with the players, not step on them

So the mindless baseball lockout continues.

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Editorial: As isolationists cower, Ukrainian resistance and sanctions give Putin hell

Russia is now under an elevated state of nuclear readiness in response to unexpectedly strong Ukrainian resistance and an overwhelming global outcry against President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of his sovereign neighbor. Putin no doubt thought this invasion would yield a quick ouster of Ukraine’s leadership so he could install a…

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Editorial: Barr's tell-all book discovers that Trump was unfit. Welcome to Earth, Bill

Former Attorney General William Barr spent almost two years running interference for a dangerously unfit president. Now, in a brazen but not terribly persuasive attempt to clean up his image in history, Barr warns that his ex-boss, Donald Trump, didn’t belong in the White House and shouldn’t be invited back.…

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Lynn Schmidt: The Republican Party of Reagan is dead

On Jan. 11, 1989, President Ronald Reagan delivered his farewell address from the Oval Office. It was the close of his second term, and Reagan was reflecting on his two terms. He asserted that his presidency was about restoring America in its role as a “shining city on a hill.”

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Ben Frederickson: Have MLB owners underestimated fan angst if regular season gets postponed?

Whenever Major League Baseball decides to stop treating its fans like spent sunflower seed shells and chewed-through bubble gum, it’s going to have to lure them back to ballparks to buy tickets and overpriced everything else.

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Kevin McDermott: 5 reasons it's necessary to continue talking about Trump

Every time that this column — or my colleagues’ columns, or the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Board — mentions Donald Trump’s name, there’s a segment of readers out there who demand to know why. He’s been out of office more than a year. Why this fixation on a former president?

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Editorial: With Roe on the ropes, red states are ready to return women to the back alleys

Elections have consequences, as they say, and the majority of Americans who support abortion rights may soon get a startling demonstration of that principle in action. In dozens of Republican-led states, including Missouri, lawmakers are filing bills to restrict abortion rights in anticipation of a likely weakening of Roe v.…

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Best Bites: Fruity Pebbles candy bar

If you are looking for a good white chocolate, this candy bar probably isn’t it. The chocolate here is only so-so. That said, it’s not the point; the crispy Fruity Pebbles embedded in it is. And they give it such a delightful (but very sweet) flavor and crunch, that you…

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Want to make food fun? Waffle it!

American cooking is heading in two different directions.

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Daniel Neman: The truth about egg cartons, and other egg secrets

You can’t tell, just by looking at it, how old an egg is. So when you’re buying eggs at a store, how can you tell which cartons have the freshest eggs?

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A shutout for Binnington, two goals for Perron in 4-0 win over Chicago

CHICAGO – When Jake McCabe slammed David Perron into the boards on the day after Thanksgiving, Perron’s season took an ugly turn.

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Jordan Kyrou has two goals and an assist as Blues beat Sabres, 5-3

ST. LOUIS — It was a game that had trouble written all over it for the Blues, one game at home against a non-contending team sandwiched between two four-game trips. It was enough of a concern that Blues coach Craig Berube addressed the situation with his team before practice on…

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School board in Missouri reverses its decision on banned book

WENTZVILLE, Mo. — A banned book again will be available to high school students here after the Wentzville School Board reversed its decision in the face of criticism and a class action lawsuit.

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Editorial: When the world faces this kind of crisis, national unity is paramount

The stock market took a plunge. Gas pump prices are edging upward by the hour. Whether Americans like it or not, the war in Ukraine is going to affect them in profound and unpleasant ways. No amount of complaining and political finger-pointing about who’s to blame will change the simple…

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Editorial: A governor clueless about computers has no business overseeing cybersecurity

A cybersecurity perfect storm has been brewing for years in Missouri’s state government computer systems under the supervision of a governor who clearly is clueless regarding computers and data. State computer systems and online data networks are antiquated, using programming languages that became obsolete decades ago. Recent comments by Gov.…

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Ex-MLB player Scott Spiezio, now sober, sharing life lessons in retirement on farm near Chicago

ST. LOUIS — Scott Spiezio will be four years sober on April 6. But this positive news comes after 11 rehabs for cocaine and, more recently, alcohol abuse, over the past 15 years, or since he played a key role for the World Series champion Cardinals in 2006 and also…

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Missouri Senate overcomes dress code dilemma, approves $4.5 billion spending plan

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A fight over one senator's bib overalls was shunted aside Wednesday so the Missouri Legislature's fractured upper chamber could finally approve a midyear budget adjustment that boosts state worker pay and bans funds for Planned Parenthood.

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