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If you want to project the state of the economy, one of the key metrics is personal saving. But this is harder to estimate than it seems. Here's one crack at it: The dashed line is the "normal" quarterly saving rate and the orange line is the actual saving rate. As you can see, it ...continue reading "Excess savings are all used up. Or are they?"

A 16-year-old was standing in a parking lot Friday evening when he was shot in the leg, police said.

John L. Day, of the 3000 block of Whittier Street, is facing charges of tampering with physical evidence and abandonment of a corpse.

Police said they found the woman shot to death at a home in Spanish Lake just after 2 a.m. Saturday.

Think you have a popular last name? A new study found most Americans have one of six surnames, almost regardless of where they live.

Our Mothers’ Gardens is a series uncovering repressed images of Black women held in photographic collections at the Art Institute of Chicago. The images often depict exploitation and violence towards

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Jimmy Fike: Edible Botanicals   A Photographic Survey of the Wild Edible Botanicals of North America   Jimmy Fike’s wonder-filled photographic archive exquisitely depicts North America’s rich trove of wild

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From Feb. 11 to May 14, the Aronson Fine Arts Center at Laumeier Sculpture Park will exhibit Yayoi Kusama’s Narcissus Garden.   Narcissus Garden is an immersive installation consisting of almost

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Fabricating Empire examines the relationship between the development of Central European folk costume and Austrian modern design, especially the textile department of the Wiener Werkstätte, or Vienna Workshops.   Taking

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The Higgins Armory Collection at the Worcester Art Museum is the nation’s second largest collection of arms and armor, including more than 1,500 objects ranging from ancient Egypt to 19th-century

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The Pulitzer Arts Foundation presents The Nature of Things: Medieval Art and Ecology, 1100-1550, the first exhibition to explore the impact of artmaking on the environment in the second half

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The Pulitzer Arts Foundation presents an exhibition of career-spanning work by Faye HeavyShield, an artist whose poetic minimal sensibility and use of humble materials is closely bound to the power

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Hosted by Bits ‘n’ Pieces Quilt Guild, Fanfare of Quilts comes to Queeny Park on March 18 and 19.   The event will feature more than 350 quilts, demonstrations, local

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Hong Kong–based artist Samson Young’s practice centers on installation-based work stemming from sound and music. He interweaves cultural paradigms across media while focusing on poetic translations between the sonic and

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1972 Fischer/Spassky: The Match, its Origin, and Influence celebrates the 50th anniversary of the American Robert “Bobby” Fischer’s historic win over the Russian Boris Spassky in the legendary 1972 World

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St. Louis is a kaleidoscope of architecture, filled with structures of every age, shape, and size. In Coloring STL, Missouri History Museum visitors will interact with these fascinating buildings in

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Advanced registration is preferred for this event, but walk-up registration is also welcomed. In order to purchase a box lunch, you must register by noon on March 16.   This

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Who’s that kid that can travel through time? It’s you!   Follow the adventures of three friends as they travel back in time to learn from real-life inspirational heroes when

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Take an overseas adventure in this immersive exhibit that transports families to China, a country where a quickly changing modern lifestyle intersects with ancient values. Explore what life is like

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