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Kicking & Steamingnew
Nobody doubts that well-heeled 36-year-old Bucks County businessman Michael Hetelson is a fine salesman. It's his latest product -- professional indoor soccer -- that many, including his father, have grave doubts about.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
02-11-2005 |
Sports
Tags: Soccer
Drop-Kick Gorgeousnew
Bad timing and institutional racism kept Gorgeous Gary Jackson out of pro wrestling's spotlight. But he's got St. Louis in a hammer lock.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
11-29-2004 |
Sports
Tags: wrestling
Prince Joe's Lamentnew
Where was Joe Henry when Major League Baseball coughed up money for ex-Negro Leaguers? In the dark.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
11-17-2004 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Mindy Cohn's Diarynew
While playing plus-sized Natalie on "The Facts of Life," Cohn was, in short, an insightful, ebullient everywoman who was there for, well, every other woman on the show. A cursory glance at the text of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones books reveals that this is just the sort of woman Bridget is supposed to be.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
11-17-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Here & Queernew
Rufus Wainwright has released the gayest album this side of Turbonegro's "Ass Cobra," and it couldn't come at a better time.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
11-11-2004 |
Reviews
Riverfront Times Calls Election for Kerrynew
As of 1:27 p.m. CST today, Riverfront Times projects that Democratic candidate John Kerry will become the 44th president of the United States, defeating incumbent Republican President George W. Bush.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
11-02-2004 |
Comedy
Geeks Gone Wildnew
"More geeky nerd types have gotten laid at Archon than ever would in the outside world," the Empress Inebria says of the annual science fiction convention. This doesn't quite explain the mahogany-skinned man in the courtyard sporting a velvet cape. It's Star Wars alum Lando Calrissian.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
10-22-2004 |
Recreation
Magic Johnson's Proposed St. Louis Development Is Deadnew
A real estate group, fronted by ex-basketball superstar Earvin "Magic" Johnson, wanted to construct a multimillion-dollar retail/residential complex on the downtrodden north side of St. Louis. But the plan got stuck in the city's stew of race and politics.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
10-19-2004 |
Politics
The Philibusternew
While flimsy and overwrought, this Collins retrospective provides for the introduction of a great new karaoke game to the world: the Philibuster. Nothing can be sung except Phil Collins songs, and the singer cannot pick any of his or her own titles.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
10-06-2004 |
Reviews
The Ten Most Hated Men in Rock (Besides Sting)new
McCartney, Santana, Buffett, The Adams Family, Elton John, Johnny Rzeznik, G.E. Smith, Oberst-Carrabba, Fred Durst and Bob Weir: Meet the men who've taken irrevocable turns for the worse and learn why they're still way cooler than Sting.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
09-08-2004 |
Music
Tall Boysnew
Tyler Hansbrough, who starts at center for the Poplar Bluff High School Mules, last year's Missouri state Class 5 champions, drives a big red GMC pickup truck with a giant sticker of a bucktoothed jackass on its rear window -- homage to the Poplar Bluff High mascot. The top pro prospect in his class, he may be the answer to Larry Bird's prayers.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
09-02-2004 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Wild Oatesnew
For John Oates, turning over a new leaf meant shaving off his Freddie Mercury moustache. Oates still ain't as pretty as his taller, blonder, better-known partner, Daryl Hall of Hall & Oates, but for our money, the pint-size David Starsky doppelgänger has got to be a better sport than, say, Andrew Ridgley, the silent half of Wham! Better yet, judge for yourself via this exclusive Q&A.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
08-25-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hall & Oates, Wild Oates
Rug Burnnew
For a quarter-century and counting, ex-high school teacher Ron Jeremy -- Guinness World Record holder for most adult-film appearances -- has lent his wit and wiener to scores of cinematic gems. But the porn man's recent star turn in a 30-second television commercial for a St. Louis adult sex-accessory retailer may be the most controversial entry in his oeuvre to date.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
08-04-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Dirt Track Nationnew
In the sport of baseball, if you throw a 96-mile-per-hour fastball and a wicked curve, you are going to get your chance with the big club. In auto racing, however, if a terrific driver doesn't have the connections or resources necessary to upgrade his equipment, he's relegated to the dirt ovals for life. If there's a baseball parallel to be drawn here, it's to the Negro Leagues, whose stars shone in relative obscurity owing to circumstances beyond their control.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
07-28-2004 |
Sports
Road Rules: The Cloudy Constitutionality of Police Drug Roadblocksnew
At face value, it would appear that the "K-9 Drug Checkpoint One Mile Ahead" sign operated near Interstate 55/70's Black Lane exit in Collinsville, Ill., is baldly unconstitutional. But looks can be deceiving, and in the still-emerging field of law-enforcement-checkpoint constitutionality, deception can often be better than playing it straight.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
06-16-2004 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
