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The cast of The Office! A Musical Parody. | JEREMY DANIELS this month, so with one e tra day in February courtesy of the eap ear, what team will the Blues play The Dallas Stars, of course. The teams are currently battling for first and second place in the entral Division and the estern onference, so this is a classic e ample of a four point game. And with only si teen games left in the regular season, every win counts. The Blues and Stars face off at p.m. Saturday, February , at the nterprise enter ( lark Avenue; www.stlblues.com . Tickets are 5 to .
THURSDAY 02/27 A Non-Martial Artist King Hu’s martial arts epic A Touch of Zen is not your standard Hong ong action film. It has an atypical protagonist in u ( hun Shih , a somewhat clumsy artist who gets caught up in the life of the beautiful fugitive ang (Feng Hsu . ang’s father tried to e pose the corruption of General Shih, the head of the secret police. ow he’s dead and ang’s on the run from General Shih and his men. A Touch of Zen has a strong spiritual element to it, with holy men and ghosts playing a part in the action. A newly restored version of the film, complete with original inemascope framing and saturated colors, is showing at p.m. Thursday, February , at ebster niversity’s oore Auditorium ( ast ockwood Avenue; www.webster.edu film series . Tickets are 5 to .
FRIDAY 02/28 Trans-Theatrical ith the success of last year’s Transluminate short play festival,
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King Hu’s A Touch of Zen screens Thursday at the Webster Film Series. | (C) JANUS FILMS the ollective looks to make the celebration of non binary transgender plays and people an annual event. The second edition, Transluminate 2020, features five new short plays. ach Barryte and achel Bowens ubin’s Another in is about a human who wants to transform into a different species but is undecided about which to choose; with the aid of a spaceship, the person travels the gala y in search of the ideal new species. Transcodicil, by eter Dakutis, is about transgender couple oe and Shawna. oe is carrying their baby, a fact that may stop him from receiving his inheritance because of a codicil added
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to his aunt’s will at the behest of oe’s transphobic mother. Transluminate takes place at p.m. Thursday and Friday, and at and p.m. Saturday and Sunday (February to arch at the hapel ( 8 Ale ander Drive; www.theqcollective.theater . Tickets are to 5, but the Thursday night performance is pay what you can.
SATURDAY 02/29 Leap Day Battle The St. Louis Blues and the Dallas Stars have already met twice
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Undefeated The women of the Arch Rival Roller Derby teams are down to their final two games before the championship, and two of the teams remain unbeaten. The 8 s and the Smashinistas will face off at p.m. Saturday, February , at the idwest Sport Hockey omple in ueeny ark (5 eidman oad; www.archrivalrollerderby.com , and only one team will still be unbeaten when it’s all over. In the second bout of the night, the Stunt Devils will go against the ebel Skate Alliance. It’s also alumni night, with the league’s early stars coming home to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of St. ouis’ ladies flat track
