AltWeeklies Wire
New St. Louisnew
Plenty of people are lining up to profit from the Crescent City's calamity, St. Louisans included. So why not simply relocate New Orleans, lock, stock and beignets, to St. Louis?
Riverfront Times |
Tom Finkel |
10-24-2005 |
Comedy
The Gang That Couldn't Dress Straightnew
The cross-dressing bank robbers who confounded St. Louis cops for years are now behind bars. Their well-planned crimes surprised detectives and family members alike.
Riverfront Times |
Kristen Hinman |
10-18-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Legendary Baseball Organist Tickles the Keyboardnew
All great musicians have their quirks; for St. Louis Cardinals organist Ernie Hays, it's his notorious potty mouth.
Riverfront Times |
Chad Garrison |
10-11-2005 |
Sports
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
Subject to Recall: Officeholders in St. Louisnew
Freeman Bosley Sr. has become the fifth St. Louis alderman in the past two years to face a recall threat.
Riverfront Times |
Chad Garrison |
09-22-2005 |
Politics
Rap vs. Rapturenew
Christian hip-hop is on the march, but some say it's the Devil's music.
Riverfront Times |
Ben Westhoff |
09-22-2005 |
Music
Bear With Themnew
Minus the Bear's latest CD represents a major shift away from the frenetic, knotty post-punk of recordings past.
Riverfront Times |
Michael Alan Goldberg |
09-13-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Trial to Determine If Mother Burned Her Son Alivenew
Sandy Kemper is accused of setting the fire that killed her 15-year-old son Zachary and brought her an insurance settlement.
Riverfront Times |
Kristen Hinman |
09-13-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Inspiration for the Strongnew
Released in the same year as Citizen Kane (1941), this account of an English professor who falls hard for two unavailable men is actually the superior film.
Riverfront Times |
Blind Phyllis |
09-06-2005 |
Reviews
Cold as Icenew
Rappers Huggie Brown and Alphonzo Cowper deconstruct an early-'90s classic about a group of Los Angeles gangbangers who flee to St. Louis to escape the heat on them.
Riverfront Times |
Ben Westhoff |
09-06-2005 |
Music
Guild Hires Official the Paper Exposednew
Shannon Duffy, nailed in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch expose about double dipping by fire-protection district officials, has been hired as the St. Louis Newspaper Guild's business agent.
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
09-06-2005 |
Business & Labor
Ozark Orgynew
On Labor Day weekend, thousands of tourists to Missouri enter Lake of the Ozarks' notorious Party Cove, an audacious free-for-all that has earned a reputation as a backwater Sodom and Gomorrah.
Riverfront Times |
Chad Garrison |
09-06-2005 |
Travel
Unfinished Symphonynew
AltWeeklies Award - Arts Feature
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
08-30-2005 |
Media
