Spring Break
In WWII, the Nazis hatched a plan to use concentration camp inmates to counterfeit Allied currency, the largest counterfeiting operation in history. Ironically, the operation was headed by a master counterfeiter who happened to be Jewish. This true story is the basis for the Oscar-winning Austrian drama "The Counterfeiters," which recently made its local debut at Plaza Frontenac Cinema.
Ella Fitzgerald was called the "First Lady of Song" and "Ella" at the Repertory Theater of St. Louis delivers a first-rate evening of entertainment with superb music and wonderful story. "Ella" is not a one-woman show in the usual sense but in a way it is.
Hidden in a part of town that to many screams "Danger! Danger, Will Robinson," is a soda fountain-meets-diner establishment by the name of Crown Candy Kitchen. Since 1913 (when it was opened by Harry Karandzieff and his best friend Pete Jugaloff), this small business has been dishing out some of the best malts, shakes and diner food one could ever taste.
Want to impress your significant other? Take her to the dance. Dance St. Louis and the Touhill have just the ticket for you. Dance St. Louis, the area's premier presenter of dance, and the Touhill Performing Arts Center announced the new "Spring To Dance Festival" on the Touhill's Anheuser-Busch Performance Hall stage last Tuesday, April 1, at a 10 a.
Fans of anime, video games and manga, which are the Japanese equivalent of comics, showed up dressed as their favorite characters to the Anime St. Louis convention March 28-30 at the Holiday Inn in the Southwest Viking Conference Center. Naruto, Death Note, Trigun, Inuyasha, Blood Plus, Yu-Gi-Oh, Full Metal Alchemist, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Cardcaptor Sakura, Wolf's Rain, Witch Hunter Robin, One Piece, BLEACH, Nero from Devil May Cry 4, Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII, Sora and Leon from the Kingdom Hearts games, and even the mascots for Nintendo, Mario, Sonic, and Shadow the Hedgehog, were among the costumed characters cosplaying, short for costume playing, which is part of a Japanese subculture.
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