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2013 Mo. Legislative Session
3:40 am
Sat May 18, 2013

Curtain Falls On Missouri's 2013 Legislative Session

Credit Marshall Griffin/St. Louis Public Radio
Mo. House members celebrate the end of the 2013 session by tossing paper in the air, which has become an annual tradition.
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Missouri's legislative session has ended, with several issues resolved and several more that came up just short.  St. Louis Public Radio's Marshall Griffin takes a closer look at the final day, and at what happens now:

A few that didn't make it, and a few that did

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Cityscape
8:43 pm
Fri May 17, 2013

Annual St. Louis Blues Festival Mixes Music And BBQ

St. Louis Bluesweek Festival 2013
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The fourth annual St. Louis Bluesweek Festival takes place Friday, May 24 – Sunday, May 26 at Soldiers Memorial in downtown St. Louis.

The headliners include Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Mavis Staples and Big George Brock, however, the Festival will highlight several artists with significant ties to St. Louis including Marquis Knox and Rich McDonough & Rough Groves.

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Cityscape
8:37 pm
Fri May 17, 2013

Max & Louie Productions’ ‘Mrs. Mannerly’

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Credit John Lamb
Donna Weinsting and Charlie Ingram
Credit John Lamb
Donna Weinsting and Charlie Ingram
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In the late 1960’s while playwright Jeffrey Hatcher was growing up in Steubenville, Ohio, he took a manners class.  Decades later, it served as the inspiration for his comedy, “Mrs. Mannerly.”  He even used his own name for one of the two main characters.  The other character is Mrs. Mannerly, the teacher of an etiquette class.

Set in Hatcher’s hometown in 1967, the plot of “Mrs. Mannerly” revolves around student Jeffrey Hatcher’s goals of being the first to achieve a perfect score in the etiquette class while also uncovering the mystery surrounding his teacher.

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Culture/History
4:04 pm
Fri May 17, 2013

Annual Mary Meachum Freedom Crossing Event Celebrates 150th Emancipation Proclamation Anniversary

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An excerpt of an Emancipation Proclamation transcript printed in the September 23, 1862 National Republican, Washington D.C.
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The Mary Meachum Freedom Crossing, on the banks of the Mississippi River in St. Louis, will be turned into a Civil War training camp tomorrow at the 11th annual Freedom Crossing Event Celebration.

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Cityscape
4:02 pm
Fri May 17, 2013

Brian Owens, Erin Bode And Peter Martin In Kids Rock Cancer Benefit

Credit Mary Edwards
Erin Bode, Brian Owens and Peter Martin at St. Louis Public Radio
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Kids Rock Cancer is an outgrowth of Maryville University’s Music Therapy Program.  Inspired by the program Purple Song Can Fly in Houston, Texas, the Maryville program goes into hospitals and works individually with children with cancer and other blood disorders.  The musical therapist helps the child express a set of thoughts and ideas, turn them into lyrics of a song and compose a tune for the lyrics.  Then the child gets to sing the song into a microphone with instrumental accompaniment.  The result is a CD recording for t

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