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Information: Kristen Hare was afraid she'd made a terrible mistake her junior year at the University of Missouri when she started her semester at the Missourian, the school's daily newspaper. All she really wanted to do was tell stories. Lucky for her, the good people at MU let Kristen do just that, and she decided that her future didn't lie in magazines, as she'd thought, but in the production of the daily news.




Kristen spent five years as the Sunday features reporter for the St. Joseph News-Press, where she also worked as an assistant Lifestyles editor. There, Kristen was the youngest reporter ever, from the smallest paper ever, to win the Darrell Sifford Memorial Prize in Journalism from MU. Her stories also won awards from the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors.




Before that, Kristen spent two years swatting mosquitoes and changing the world in Guyana with the Peace Corps. There, she met her husband, and when he got a job offer in St. Louis, she was happy to make the move and be close to family again. Kristen a left daily newspaper hoping to keep telling stories, and lucky for her, the good people at the Beacon are letting her do just that.




Kristen lives in Lake Saint Louis with her husband, Jai, and their toddler, Max.

 













'The Road Show' improv

Brent Jones | St. Louis Beacon

This Saturday was the debut of a new show by The Improv Shop that will bring out of town improv teams to St. Louis to play for — and with — a local audience. The Road Show brought teams "Everybody Grok" and "Felt" from Chicago.

We talked to Eric Christensen, producer of the Road Show and member of local improv team "Ted Dangerous"; Katie Nunn, member of "Ted Dangerous" and improv coach; and Melanie Penn and Ranjan Khan, members of local teams "Melanj" and "Magic Ratio"; about the St. Louis improv scene and why it's important to welcome teams from other cities to perform here.

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  • 'Real' TV from Snooki to Mitt

    M.W. Guzy fears his daughters' affection for trash TV might have been genetically inherited, as he finds himself drawn to the anybody-but-Mitt show, playing on a loop on cable "news' channels.


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Barroom Conversations

The Beacon's nationally recognized Barroom Conversations program on race, class and other issues that divide will be held on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, at 7:30 PM discussing Education and Class. RSVP on Facebook and invite your friends! We'll pick up where we left off at Six Row Brewing Co., 3690 Forest Park Avenue at Spring. We look forward to seeing you again!

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