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Young African-American Republican Runs Far-Out Campaignnew
Leslie Farr was a train conductor until he made a disparaging remark to passengers about a delay caused by a train carrying John Kerry and John Edwards. He's taking on William Lacy Clay Jr. for a seat in the House.
Riverfront Times |
Ben Westhoff |
10-29-2004 |
Politics
Tags: Missouri, Republican Party
The 2004 Riverfront Times Candidate Challenge Weeds Out Cowardsnew
Tired of listening to synthetic speeches, Riverfront Times asked candidates for political office to play "Rock, Paper, Scissors," bowl, sing and run a footrace to win the paper's endorsement. Several 'fraidy cat contenders declined the invitation.
Riverfront Times |
Chad Garrison |
10-28-2004 |
Politics
Developmentally Disabled Boy Kicked Out of Cub Scoutsnew
Cub Scout pack leaders wrote to Christopher Lowe-Irby's mother and said her 7-year-old would be barred from meetings and activities "for both his safety and the other children's safety."
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
10-26-2004 |
Children & Families
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
Robin Williams Messes With Memoriesnew
This satisfyingly eerie thriller is concerned with the moral implications of recording entire lives and what those lives ultimately mean once they're edited down into sweet, bowdlerized, easily digested movies.
Riverfront Times |
Gregory Weinkauf |
10-19-2004 |
Reviews
Die, Jeff Buckley, Die!new
In May of '97, Buckley died in ludicrously romantic fashion, drowning in the Mississippi River near Memphis during recording sessions for an album. Then the posthumous Jeff Buckley album industry sprung up to cash in.
Riverfront Times |
Rob Harvilla |
10-19-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
He Writes the Signs in the Ballparknew
Marty Prather's obsession with holding up handpainted signs began during the 1985 World Series, when he flashed a sign that read: "The Fat Lady Is Singing."
Riverfront Times |
Chad Garrison |
10-19-2004 |
Sports
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
Golf Ball Fishing in Americanew
“There’s gold in these waters,” says Michael Aux Tinee. He is part of the secretive world of golf ball retrieval, an industry worth an estimated $200 million a year.
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
10-19-2004 |
Sports
Extreme Makeover: Hotshot City Planner Does St. Louisnew
Rollin Stanley is learning that the hurdles he faces in St. Louis are far taller than those he encountered during his 21 years as a well-respected planner in Toronto. There, innovation was the rule. St. Louis is more cautious.
Riverfront Times |
Randall Roberts |
10-19-2004 |
Politics
Health Career College Accused of Not Delivering on Jobsnew
Former students, teachers and administrators say St. Louis College of Health Careers had high teacher turnover, outdated equipment and too many class cancellations. They say college officials helped students cheat so they could enroll and get financial aid.
Riverfront Times |
Shelley Smithson |
10-13-2004 |
Education
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
Stop and Gonew
The French flick plays like a parody of suspense movies, then occasionally becomes serious, then boring, then makes a jarring 180, then frustrates, then gets vaguely interesting again.
Riverfront Times |
Luke Y. Thompson |
10-04-2004 |
Reviews
The Ramones Bopped Toward History and an Unhappy Endnew
This film is a history about the twin mysteries of how two guys who hated each other stayed in a band for more than two decades and how the Ramones managed to influence a million kids to start 250,000 bands without ever having a hit.
Riverfront Times |
Robert Wilonsky |
10-04-2004 |
Reviews
Watt, Me Worry?new
The legendary bassist risks everything by releasing his new album, a sprawling opera that draws on Dante's Divine Comedy and Watt's brush with death, which was caused by an abscess on his perineum.
Riverfront Times |
Paul Friswold |
09-29-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
