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St. Louis Magazine - December, 2008

December 2008

Lead Story

'tis the Season

The ultimate guide to the holidays in St. Louis ... even for the inner Scrooge

By Maud Kelly and Jarrett Medlin

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Feedback: December 2008

Flashback: 1944

Editor's Note: Traditions

Magic Carpentry Ride

What It’s Like To Be a Rockette

The Year in Review: An Optimist’s Guide

Sweeping St. Louis

A Tale of Two Cities

Stylish Subtleties: Jimmy Jamieson

Sunshine, Lollipops and ... Revenge?

Window Treatment

Coda and Bridge

Frugal Foodie: The U

Liquid Assets: Bubbles on the Brain

First Look: Triumph Grill

Review: Revival

Kitchen Q&A: Patricia Corrigan



	Table of Contents (December 2008)

	'tis the Season Sidebars Winter Wonderland, a signing Santa, and more By Jarrett Medlin and Maud Kelly

	Quiet Cool Inside the gentlest creative mind in St. Louis By Jeannette Cooperman

	"I Was Kicking Ass and Taking Names" Bill Jakob arrived in Gerald, Mo., earlier this year with a badge, guns and a promise to put the small town’s drug dealers behind bars. Today, Jakob’s the one facing jail time By Malcolm Gay

	Faith and Family A Muslim woman, her Catholic grandmother and their overlapping lives By Aisha Sharif

	“Y’All Vous Autres” Centuries ago, horrified purists at l’Académie Française scolded the rural French away from speaking blunt, colorful Old French. But the language survived in Missouri, and a young fiddler’s keeping it alive By Jeannette Cooperman

	The Christmas Eve Tree Another bad holiday idea By Dave Lowry

	A Conversation with Chuck Berry King of Rock 'n' Roll By Jeannette Cooperman

	Mapping the Divide A lifelong St. Louisan grapples with the city's racial disparity By Frank Kovarik