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Shepard’s Brilliant ‘True West’ Blazes in Gritty St. Louis Actors’ Studio Production

By Lynn Venhaus Managing Editor Menace is in the air as a tempestuous sibling rivalry escalates in late great Sam Shepard’s muscular masculine opus, “True West.”

Clearly, their mother did not heed music outlaws Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson’s warning: “Mammas, don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys.” The two grown-up brothers can’t be fenced in, especially gonzo Lee, and it now…

St. Louis Actors’ Studio’s “Blackbird” raw and unforgettable

Photo Patrick Huber

The raw and risky “Blackbird” draws us into a danger zone – sex with a minor — and the aftermath of broken wings struggling to fly again.

Playwright David Harrower opted not for moral judgments, and instead is brutal about our truth and our memories. How would two people recall their illicit affair 15 years earlier, when he was 40 and she was 12, now that scandal and scorn has…

If you think you’ve already seen the cutest marriage proposal of the year, we raise you this heartwarming tale of a Swedish former Olympic diver who recently said ‘yes’ to his German boyfriend – after being surprised with the ring on a gondola ride in Venice. Here come the tears.

Body builder Patrick Huber wouldn’t even tell his Olympian counterpart, Jimmy Sjödin, where they were going when they left their Munich home by car in July. They eventually reached Venice, Italy, a place Jimmy had always wanted to visit, where Patrick had arranged for a travel photographer from Flytographer to take secret snaps of their sweet adventure. When the pair set off on a romantic gondola ride on the Venetian Lagoon, Patrick knew the time was right, and popped the question.

Neutrino detectors can be used to detect nuclear weapons

Yes! Neutrino detectors can be used to detect nuclear weapons. (Ref: The above story is based on materials provided by Virginia Tech. )

  Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland  look to subatomic particles called neutrinos to answer the big questions about the universe. 

Neutrinos are produced by the decay of radioactive elements, and nuclear reactors produce large amounts of…