Email Author Ben Westhoff

Awards

• 2007 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards

  "Ace of Spaides"

• 2006 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published September 14, 2005

  "Rap vs. Rapture"

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2003 Stories by Ben Westhoff

• Fishing With Dynamite

  published December 31, 2003

  Fishing is hip. No, seriously, it is. Witness ESPN's hot new 29-year-old bass-fishing color analyst Ish Monroe, who just happens to be black.... More >>

• Hockey 101

  published December 24, 2003

  FRI 12/26 Hockey is one of the most expensive sports your kid can choose to pursue (preceded only by polo, which requires a horse or... More >>

• Frankie's Plan

  published December 17, 2003

  SAT 12/20 Did you know that St. Louis played a pivotal role in the civil-rights struggles of the '60s? There were hundreds of locals... More >>

• Love the Gun You're With

  published December 10, 2003

  Concealed-carry proponent Greg Jeffery fondly recalls the first time he went hunting, back in 1986: He traveled to Audrain County, just north of... More >>

• City Circus Cabaret

  published December 10, 2003

  Those of you who weren't around before 1932 might not know too much about vaudeville. No, it's not a shantytown in Iowa where French people are... More >>

• Blues & Boobs

  published December 3, 2003

  TUES 12/9 Waitresses in tight tops and short skirts, fried food and violence-as-sport: This extra-manly stop for the St. Louis Blues... More >>

• Warsaw Pact House

  published December 3, 2003

  The St. Louis Bosnian community is clustered in south city but stretches all over the metro area. Culturally, it reaches even farther, absorbing... More >>

• Literary Heroes

  published November 26, 2003

  The toy market has changed drastically in recent years. Whereas toys were once marketed only to kids, these days toy manufacturers are aware of --... More >>

• No More Funny Business!

  published November 12, 2003

  It's game seven of the American League Championship Series. The Yankees and Red Sox are tied at five in the ninth inning. And yet the ground floor... More >>

• Hollywood Homies

  published October 22, 2003

  How do you make Toronto look like St. Louis? And why would you want to?Bob Gale, University City native and writer of the Back to the Future... More >>

• Fierce Scrums, Dirty Bums

  published October 22, 2003

  SAT 10/25 Football is for wusses. Not only was the American pastime derived from its superior predecessor, rubgy, but additions like... More >>

• Cut the Castration Scene

  published October 15, 2003

  Dean Kemper figured he had a great idea for Halloween. Rather than come up with just another haunted house that charges folks ten or fifteen bucks... More >>

• Can You Get a Witness?

  published October 8, 2003

  It's not easy being a conservative mouthpiece on a liberal college campus. "We've had stacks of our papers thrown away, our flyers ripped down,... More >>

• NPR's Sleeper Awakens

  published October 8, 2003

  SAT 10/11 Arguably National Public Radio's fifth biggest celebrity (Garrison "I'm a folking genius!" Keillor, Car Talkers Tom... More >>

• Lost in Paradise

  published October 8, 2003

  Modesto, California, is quite possibly the country's most fucked-up place. A beautiful seventeen-year-old girl, Marisa, once showed it to me. Over... More >>

• They Lost It at the Movies

  published October 1, 2003

  Back in the mid-1960s, Harper Barnes took a vacation to Florence, Italy. He was, at the time, a graduate student in English at the University of... More >>

• These You've Got to See

  published October 1, 2003

  Of the dozens of social guidance films screened for this article, the five below stand out as the funniest (for adults). Unfortunately, these... More >>

• That Ain't Kibble

  published October 1, 2003

  SAT 10/4 If you think this is a Christopher Guest movie, you're barking up the wrong tree. This is the Purina Dog Chow Incredible Dog... More >>

• No Wining

  published September 17, 2003

  SAT 9/20 The definition of a microbrewery is anything smaller than Anheuser-Busch, at least according to the Augusta Bottoms Beer... More >>

• Burnt to a Crispus

  published September 10, 2003

  Crispus Attucks was a slave who later became the first American -- black or otherwise -- to die in the events leading to the Revolutionary War.... More >>

• I Love the '80s

  published September 10, 2003

  TUES 9/16 In its last few appearances, Fontbonne University's "Cinema of Neglect" series has been a showcase for worthy films from... More >>