Chrissie Dickinson was a multimedia artist and award-winning country and rock ‘n’ roll critic whose work appeared in the Chicago Reader, the Chicago Tribune, Newcity, the Boston Phoenix, the Washington Post, and the Christian Science Monitor. She died on May 19, 2022, from heart failure. She is remembered here by friend and creative partner Cynthia […]
Tag: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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The gremlin and the EdD
She earned the title—still he was dissing her! Would he do the same to, say, Dr. Kissinger?
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Looking for certainty in allegations against the Wash U. men’s soccer team
Indignant male commenters react to the suspension of Washington U.’s men’s soccer team.
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Is ESPN honoring a principled football team or should it mind its own business?
The continuing repercussions from the racial protests at Mizzou.
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Cubs fan Bill McClellan bargains with higher power
On behalf of a friend, Saint Louis’s biggest Cubs fan is willing to deal.
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Gary Rivlin—the reporter Harold Washington and Hurricane Katrina have in common
Former Reader writer Gary Rivlin has a new book out on the rebuilding of New Orleans postflood.
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The White Sox don’t look so bad from 300 miles south
Saint Louis baseball writers see hope for White Sox.
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Did Saint Louis have one police shooting too many?
Remember the other police shooting near Ferguson?
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On racial upheaval in Saint Louis—or at least Ferguson
Protest meets repressive force in Ferguson, Missouri
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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch conspicuously dumps George Will
Should the Post-Dispatch have cut the conservative columnist for his piece on campus sexual assaults?
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The loathsome hegemony of the Saint Louis Cardinals
How did the Cardinals become so hard to take?
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Coldly appraised: The Cubs in 2013
Saint Louis Cubs fan Bill McClellan sizes up a terrible season.
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Always Throw Your Money Away Shrewdly
Lotteries, the odds, probability, and newspapers that don’t have a clue
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Did the next U.S. ambassador to Great Britain win the pennant for the Cardinals in 1985 but cost them the ’81 pennant?
The next American ambassador to Great Britain played a key role in the 1981 and 1985 pennant races.