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In Monday's HealthDay TV segment, Cindy Haines talks about the benefits exercising and drinking tea provide for breast cancer-induced depression. Watch. Become a fan of Dr. Cindy Haines on Facebook or follow her on Twitter . |
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.
Conversations: Noted essayist Gerald Early talks baseball, race and class
St. Louis author Gerald Early talks about the declining numbers of African Americans in the sport. This story is part of a larger look at class in the region, our series Class: The Great Divide
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.
Miguel Dulick recounts a trans-Honduras tour that, again, reminded him of the power and joy of keeping siblings and parents connected.
Ken Schechtman says that publicly traded business will not -- perhaps cannot -- put doing the right thing ahead of legally maximizing profits.
In this week's Beacon Roundtable, Dick Weiss, Jason Rosenbaum, Jo Mannies, Robert Joiner and Dale Singer sit down to talk about the Missouri primary and redistricting, the controversy around…
Editor Margaret Wolf Freivogel says the problems that froze the Beacon's site in the past are being fixed: Thank you for your patience.
Ben Finegold checks out the women's play at the Tradewise Gilbraltar Chess Congress, particularly the chess played by 17-year-old Hou Yifan of China.
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The Missouri Foundation for Health will hold a meeting to highlight its funding strategy for 2012. The meeting is scheduled for 9-11 a.m. on February 1 at the Missouri Foundation for Health's 2nd floor training room in the Grand Central building at Union Station in St. Louis.
Meetings are free and designed for health and community action nonprofits, community service clubs, human service providers and community leaders. RSVPs are encouraged: Contact Maranda Witherspoon at 800-655-5560 or [email protected]. More information.

The St. Louis Beacon rang in 2012 with a concert performance of Gilbert & Sullivan's beloved operetta, "The Mikado," at the Sheldon Concert Hall, and the Higher Education Channel was on hand to record it. Here is a link to the complete perfomance, which we hope you'll enjoy.
The musical direction of "The Mikado" was by Amy Kaiser; Craig Terry was conductor-accompanist. All proceeds from ticket sales benefitted the Beacon.