Email Author Chad Garrison

Awards

• 2008 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published April 4, 2007

  "The Mystery of Lloyd Gaines"

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2008 Stories by Chad Garrison

• The Collector: St. Louis artist Bill Keaggy takes the ordinary and makes it extraordinary

  published June 18, 2008

  On a misty May morning Bill Keaggy is up before first light. The 37-year-old artist tiptoes up the creaky staircase of his Tower Grove South... More >>

• Sobering thought: New legislation could make it difficult to get a drink on Cherokee Street

  published May 28, 2008

  Like many young entrepreneurs who've invested in Cherokee Street, Will Liebermann concedes that the neighborhood has yet to take off like other... More >>

• Just Shoot Me: Photographer's My Chemical Romance nightmare has a happy ending

  published May 14, 2008

  Last week was a wild one for freelance photographer Nichole Torpea. The 22-year-old UMSL grad was shooting the May 3 My Chemical Romance... More >>

• Radio Active: What has Patty Wente done to create such a meltdown at KWMU?

  published May 7, 2008

  The University of Missouri-St. Louis is looking into questions surrounding the management and accounting practices at its radio station KWMU... More >>

• All In A Name

  published April 9, 2008

  After a year spent preparing and fundraising, a group of retired St. Louis Post-Dispatch editors were preparing to officially launch... More >>

• Green Teams: The Cardnials scramble to join the ranks of the environmentally conscious

  published March 26, 2008

  Last year Cardinals fans purchased 1.5 million plastic soda bottles and scores more plastic bottles of water and beer at Busch Stadium. Nearly... More >>

• Same Ol' Song: Club owners owe royalties for music played on their premises

  published March 12, 2008

  Last October 27, when a band at JackSons' tavern in Dogtown cranked out a version of John Cougar Mellencamp's "Pink Houses" and backed it up with... More >>

• Red Alert: Everything they really don't want you to know about those pesky traffic-light cameras

  published March 5, 2008

  The twenty defendants who trudged into St. Louis City's dingy municipal court building this past Valentine's Day shared two things in common: One,... More >>

• True Story: Columbia's True/False Film Fest hits the half-decade mark

  published February 27, 2008

  Last year's True/False Film Fest in Columbia attracted nearly 15,000 people to the quaint college town. Not bad at all for a five-year-old... More >>

• Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton: Meacham Park Boils Over

  published Feb 08, 2008

  The morning after a gunman killed five people in a Kirkwood City Council meeting, a group of more than 100 assembled in the predominantly black neighborhood of Meacham Park to make sense of the traged... More >>

• Phantom Punch

  published January 23, 2008

  Milton "Skip" Ohlsen dreamed of being the Don King of ultimate fighting in St. Louis. In 2006 the then-34-year-old promoter formed the company... More >>

• Smelterville

  published January 16, 2008

  Mention the town of Crystal City and invariably you'll hear the name Bill Bradley. The NBA Hall of Famer turned U.S. senator from New... More >>