AltWeeklies Wire
Strong Safetynew
Has the NFL gone too far trying to monitor players' off-field antics?
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
01-31-2006 |
Sports
Tags: football, law enforcement
Sweet and Lo-Finew

First there was blogging, then podcasting -- now video blogging, or vlogging, is taking the web to the next level.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
01-17-2006 |
Media
Horse & Scissorsnew

Bryant "HairKutt" Johnson's attempt to quit heroin cold-turkey is the subject of an hourlong documentary that elicits tears, cheers and laughs.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
11-15-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ben Scholle, Best Social Documentary at the New York Independent Film and Video Festival, Curtis Elliott and Ben Scholle, Great Smoky Mountains, HairKutt, Maurice Reese Bradley, St. Louis International Film Festival., top documentary feature honors at Cinema St. Louis' Independent Filmmaker Showcase
Dyslexic Artnew
John Roderick of the Seattle-based band The Long Winters basically writes in non sequitirs and walks around all day in wet shoes.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
09-27-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Senator Calls on Republicans to Right the Shipnew
John Danforth, who says the GOP has become captive to Christian fundamentalists, discusses the role of religion in politics.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
09-27-2005 |
Politics
Young African-American Aims to Be Champion Bowlernew
Somebody forgot to tell 21-year-old Emil Williams Jr. that bowling is for fat, beer-guzzling honkies.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
09-27-2005 |
Sports
The Truck Stops Herenew
Southern Illinois vegetable farmer David Metzger has but one other passion: long-haul trucking, which doubles as his full-time occupation. This week, in Tampa, he'll find out whether he's the best in the U.S.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
08-18-2005 |
Recreation
Tags: trucking
Three Nights In Junenew
River City Rascal hitting coach Jack Clark gives off an aura reminiscent of Muhammad Ali post-prime, a variation on what might be termed "Tough Guy Zen." He and his coiled bat used to treat an oncoming fastball as though it were a blacktop possum.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
08-02-2005 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
A Boy-Man Love Storynew
Fauntleroy's pro-gay DNA is well-established in this 1936 film.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
07-20-2005 |
Reviews
The Big Bad Bottlenew
By the turn of the century, Forties of malt liquor had been left for dead. With antiquated delivery and brewing methods, there was no compelling reason for anyone to rescue either Forties or malt liquor. Which is exactly why one man is trying to save them both.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
06-13-2005 |
Food+Drink
Apocalypse Nownew
Up until four years ago, Chris Metzler was only vaguely familiar with the Salton Sea. But the area's sordid rep intrigued Metzler, a Missouri-bred filmmaker who, at that time, earned his keep editing "awful American B-movies" and music videos in Los Angeles.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
06-03-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Risk of Shopping While Black at Dillard'snew
A shopping trip to Dillard's resulted in the arrest for two African-American women, who claim they were falsely accused of shoplifting, mistreated, bullied and racially profiled.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
05-17-2005 |
Business & Labor
Choke the Chickennew
Adult businesses fear Matt Bartle's "Smut Shop" bill will tax them into oblivion.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
03-28-2005 |
Politics
The Resurrection of Carl Officernew
East St. Louis’ prodigal son is back. But is he the man to save Sin City?
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
03-28-2005 |
Politics
Too Good To Be Truenew
When Paul Sturtz and David Wilson debuted their True-False Film Festival in Columbia, Missouri last February, their goal was to become the premier documentary film festival in the Midwest. Mission accomplished.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
02-24-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Multiple, True/False Film Festival