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More by Ben Westhoff
Anarchy in the Ozarks: A Hardcore Punk Scene in the Missouri Backwaters?new
Springfield and Joplin once served as Missouri's primary nexus for punk. Those relatively populous cities harbored the region's most popular bands and, despite their remote locales, national touring acts considered them a perfect stopping point while driving from, say, Chicago to Dallas.
Riverfront Times |
Ben Westhoff |
01-23-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Vokal Criticsnew
In the cutthroat world of urban fashion, there's lies, damn lies -- and sales statistics.
Riverfront Times |
Ben Westhoff |
02-12-2007 |
Fashion
Tags: fashion
Doomsday Disciplesnew
Be it nuclear holocaust, quake or hurricane, St. Louis' Zombie Squad is ready for anything -- even an attack from the living dead.
Riverfront Times |
Ben Westhoff |
02-12-2007 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
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108 Degrees? Time to Melt Some Vinyl!new
How to take care of your vinyl records (with or without the heat).
Riverfront Times |
Cassie Kohler |
07-02-2012 |
Advice
Will Monsanto's Sweet 'EverMild' Tearless Onion Whet a Discriminating Palate?new
St. Louis-based Monsanto has a plan to make sweet-onion farmers weep. The seed company last week unveiled a tearless onion that it's dubbed the "EverMild," modeled after the famous Vidalia sweet onion from Georgia.
Riverfront Times |
Kristen Hinman |
02-19-2010 |
Food+Drink
Poetry in a Cold Climate: Ron Smith Found His Muse in Antarcticanew
Tall and thin with close-cropped hair, Ron Smith served with the Air Force's Operation Deep Freeze, rising to commander in 2004. In December 2008, he was transferred to Scott Air Force Base, where he now serves as the Air National Guard adviser for strategic planning.
Riverfront Times |
Aimee Levitt |
01-22-2010 |
Culture
A Screwball Crew of Gearheads Retool the Outlaw Cross-Country Car Racenew
Just like the madcap Cannonball Run races of three decades ago, the idea is to go as fast as you fucking can. And if that means doing 115 mph in a junky old police cruiser, rigging up auxiliary gasoline tanks, subsisting on beef jerky and peeing into plastic bags to save time, well, so be it. Welcome to the "twenny-nine-oh-four."
Riverfront Times |
Nicholas Phillips |
12-01-2009 |
Recreation
Thespians on Wheels: Joan Lipkin's DisAbility Project is on a Rollnew
On this sunny September morning, Lipkin is about to launch the fourteenth season of the DisAbility Project, one of the few theater groups in the country that produces original shows and promotes disability rights.
Riverfront Times |
Aimee Levitt |
11-13-2009 |
Theater
