Email Author Keegan Hamilton

Awards

• 2012 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published October 12, 2011

  "Meet Mr. Buzzard"

• 2012 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published March 2, 2011

  "The Wrong Man"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 1, 2010

  "Dog Beat Dog"

• 2008 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published September 5, 2007

  "2 Hot in Here"

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2010 Stories by Keegan Hamilton

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  Ibogaine is a hallucinogen that has helped addicts kick their drug habits. Is it the trip that does the trick?

  published November 18, 2010

  Ron Price needs his milkshake. It's ten o'clock on a Monday morning, and the baldheaded, barrel-chested former bodybuilder is shuffling around... More >>

• Earthworms premieres Capricorn Dreams about its military-base tour

  published October 20, 2010

  Last April, Armed Forces Entertainment booked Earthworms to perform at American military bases across Europe, a tour that would take them... More >>

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  Hip-hop jack-of-all-trades Black Spade is the force behind local rap collective the Force

  published September 15, 2010

  Onstage at Atomic Cowboy, two rappers trade verses and strut, clad in sunglasses, sneakers and tuxedos with powder-blue vests. It's the club's... More >>

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  To pull off the biggest pit bull fighting bust in U.S. history, investigators went deep undercover. So did their dogs.

  published September 1, 2010

  The grainy footage shows two snarling pit bulls in a dimly lit barn, staring each other down through a haze of cigarette smoke. Walled in by a... More >>

• For the Love of Pit: Many former fighting dogs find new lives as family pets

  published September 1, 2010

  Gale Frey holds her 40-pound pit bull as if it were an infant, cradling the dog in her arms and rocking gently back and forth. The docile dog... More >>

• Stan Chisholm: 2010 MasterMind

  published August 25, 2010

  Stan Chisholm is covered in paint. The opening of NewPopII, his solo exhibition at Hoffman LaChance Contemporary in Maplewood,... More >>

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  Rapper Huey looks to shake off the past with a mature outlook and a new album

  published August 18, 2010

  Early one Friday morning in May 2009, two cars left a birthday bash for the rapper Yo Gotti, which had taken place at Club Society near Union... More >>

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  The World Cup trophy is pretty darn ugly. But nothing says balls like the Golden Cup!

  published July 7, 2010

  St. Louis has been a soccer town since before the Cardinals started winning the World Series. According to St. Louis soccer historian... More >>

• The 5 Best Places to Watch the 2010 World Cup Final

  published July 7, 2010

  If Netherlands is playing: Barrister's (15 North Meramec Avenue, Clayton; 314-726-5007) At Barrister's, Clayton's... More >>

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  The 2010 RFT Music Award winners

  published June 23, 2010

  Voting for this year's music awards was as close as it's ever been. Several categories were decided by very, very few votes, even though... More >>

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  2010 Music Showcase: 1 night, 50+ bands, 5 bucks this Saturday on Wash. Ave.

  published June 2, 2010

  This year, the RFT Music Awards nominees include more acts than they have in past years. Part of this increase is a function of the... More >>

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  The potentially explosive "shake-and-bake" method is burning its way through meth land

  published May 19, 2010

  *Editor's Note: James Johnson is a pseudonym. January was a rough stretch for James Johnson*. In the span of a few cold,... More >>

• Methology 101: Old-school meth labs give way to "shake and bake"

  published May 19, 2010

  That methamphetamine remains so prevalent in Missouri and other states is due in part to the sheer ingenuity and persistence of meth cooks,... More >>

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  Baby-Faced Justin Lawrence Stands 5'8", Weighs 165 Pounds and Can Kick Your Ass Six Different Ways

  published March 17, 2010

  At age nineteen, Justin Lawrence does not sport an intimidating physique. Barefoot on a wrestling mat, he stands a stocky five-foot-eight, if... More >>

• MMA Continues to Explode While Boxing Dies a Slow Death

  published March 17, 2010

  The South Broadway Athletic Club is the closest thing St. Louis has to a boxing mecca. A crumbling community hall on the corner of Seventh... More >>

• A Blogger's Baker's Dozen: The RFT staff presents a sampler of St. Louis' must-read contributors to the blogosphere

  published March 3, 2010

  We are a nation of bloggers, a chattering class of more than 20 million, pecking away, yearning to be heard, craving a response. If journalists... More >>

• A six-year-long neighborhood feud boils over in Dardenne Prairie

  published February 10, 2010

  On the afternoon of June 24, 2009, Jerry Andres burst into Dardenne Prairie's city hall and demanded to see the mayor. He was 48 years old, a... More >>

• Taverns in St. Louis city and county likely to skirt smoking bans

  published January 27, 2010

  Looking for a list of taverns in St. Louis city and county that are likely to skirt the smoking bans? Belly up to this sidebar,... More >>

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  When sweeping smoking bans take effect next year, many bar patrons might not even notice the difference

  published January 27, 2010

  Krueger's Bar and Grill is a block and a world away from the Ritz-Carlton. Here, on Forsyth Boulevard a few hundred feet past Clayton's border... More >>

• A little smoke-free trivia to clear the air

  published January 27, 2010

  In March 2006, the city of Calabasas, California, enacted perhaps the most draconian smoking ban in all the United States. The affluent Los... More >>

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  Meltdown in Venice: Larry Burgan wages an uphill battle to prove he was poisoned by radioactive waste

  published January 13, 2010

  During the week before the Fourth of July nine years ago, Larry Burgan came to believe that he'd been exposed to thousands of pounds of... More >>