Email Author Kristen Hinman

Awards

• 2011 - Livingston Awards for Young Journalists, published April 14, 2010

  "Down on the Farm"

• 2011 - Association of Food Journalists Awards, published April 14, 2010

  "Down on the Farm"

• 2010 - Pen Center USA West Literary Awards, published March 18, 2009

  "Vanishing Act"

• 2009 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published November 26, 2008

  "The Pope of Pork"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 26, 2008

  "The Pope of Pork"

• 2009 - Association of Food Journalists Awards, published November 26, 2008

  "The Pope of Pork"

• 2009 - Pen Center USA West Literary Awards, published November 26, 2008

  "The Pope of Pork"

• 2008 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published December 19, 2007

  "Hoop Raiders"

• 2007 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published December 14, 2006

  Basketball By the Book, Part 3

• 2007 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published November 16, 2006

  Basketball By the Book, Part 2

• 2007 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published November 2, 2006

  Basketball by the Book, Part 1

• 2007 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published May 18, 2006

  An Incomplete Education

• 2007 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published November 1, 2006

  Basketball By the Book, Part 1

• 2006 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published March 16, 2005

  "Something Fishy"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 27, 2005

  "The Case of the Stained Glass Bandit"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 13, 2005

  "Current Event"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 16, 2005

  "Irons in the Fire"

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2009 Stories by Kristen Hinman

• Holiday Sneer: Do unscrupulous websites and fire-protection districts mess with our happiness quotient?

  published December 2, 2009

  Where Jackassery Reigns Kudos to Post-Dispatch reporter Elizabethe Holland. Her repeated, in-depth coverage of the astonishingly... More >>

• Parting Shots: The St. Louis International Film Festival wraps Sunday, but there's still plenty worth checking out

  published November 18, 2009

  SLIFF's eighteenth installment will come to a close with a free party and awards ceremony at the Moonrise Hotel at 8 p.m. on Sunday, November... More >>

• What Price Green? A rattled Chesterfield neighborhood says the droning noise of Parkway Central's recycling plant far outweighs environmental benefits

  published October 28, 2009

  The Parkway School District estimates that last year it saved 1,304 tons of trash from a landfill, or the equivalent of taking 244 cars off the... More >>

• The South Butt takes on the North Face -- and more

  published October 7, 2009

  The North Face to Missouri Teen: No Ifs, Ands or "South Butts" Meet Jimmy Winkelmann, or as his lawyer affectionately refers to his... More >>

• RFT talks with the St. Louis nurse who kept Saddam healthy until it was time for him to hang

  published September 23, 2009

  St. Louisan Was Saddam's Nurse Five years ago Robert Ellis was charged with the most memorable assignment of his life: keep Saddam... More >>

• Fade to Black: Just as the cameras began to roll on a major city film project, the plug is pulled

  published September 2, 2009

  Three years ago Walter Gunn devised a plan to promote St. Louis' filmmaking community. It involved the production of 100 short films about the... More >>

• Big Funny: Founder Bill Chott and his fellow improv tricksters aim to bring back the glory days of St. Louis sketch comedy

  published September 2, 2009

  At his 40th birthday roast — an evening he has billed as "XXX-rated" and pimped like a (Twitter-savvy) boxing promoter — Bill Chott... More >>

• Did This Mother Poison her Son for Attention?

  published August 5, 2009

  On his fourth birthday, Mikal Pickens slipped into semi-consciousness in a bed at St. Louis Children's Hospital. His sister Kheematah Pickens,... More >>

• An ode to Michael Jackson; plus, NeighborhoodScout tells us who's bad

  published July 1, 2009

  Remembering Michael Jackson If you were a child growing up in the '80s, there was no question that you liked Michael Jackson. It was a... More >>

• Hornswoggled!: Welcome to Gerald, Missourah — the town that did just fall off the turnip truck

  published June 10, 2009

  At their monthly meeting on May 8, 2008, the elected officials of Gerald, Missouri, agreed to demolish the old cattle barn, discussed problems... More >>

• Butt Heads: Want to know where our public officials stand on smoking bans? OK, we'll ask 'em!

  published May 27, 2009

  Two weeks ago state legislatures in North Carolina — the nation's top tobacco-producing state — and Wisconsin passed statewide... More >>

• Butt Heads: At the State Capitol, a Different Set of Smoking Rules Applies

  published May 27, 2009

  When it comes to lighting up in Missouri's capitol building, nailing down the protocol is about as easy as pinning down a cloud of smoke.... More >>

• The Daily RFT mourns Mickey Carroll, looks into a report of police brutality and catches up with Catherine Hanaway

  published May 20, 2009

  Honorary Pallbearers Albert Pujols and Jim Edmonds No-Shows at Munchkin's Funeral A smattering of about 200 people attended a funeral... More >>

• Musical Chairs: At last, the mystery of the missing Chippendales is solved

  published April 29, 2009

  When Frederick "Fritz" Lehmann IV discovered several years ago that his family's prized Chippendale chairs were missing from a downtown office... More >>

• Holy Hip-Hop: "Soul Force" strikes the Loop every other Sunday for a one-of-a-kind worship service

  published April 15, 2009

  On Easter Sunday, outside the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission, cars plastered with kelly-green JESUS stickers line Delmar Boulevard. Inside... More >>

• Lit Up: Keisha Ervin's gritty tales of the St. Louis streets have made her one of the nation's hottest purveyors of urban fiction

  published April 15, 2009

  Keisha Ervin wants to move. She shudders and shakes her head and blurts "Ah!" just thinking about it. Don't get Ervin wrong, her... More >>

• Sowing Pains: Bowood Farms nursery's expansion plan spreads seeds of discontent in the Central West End

  published April 8, 2009

  Shortly before John McPheeters went before the St. Louis Preservation Board last month to ask permission to demolish a 100-year-old house, a... More >>

• Vanishing Act, Part 2: Missing since 2003, little Christian Ferguson is almost surely dead. Police think they've fingered the culprit — and there's nothing they can do about it. A Riverfront Times Special Report.

  published March 25, 2009

  The 911 call came in half an hour after sunrise, at 6:09 a.m. on Wednesday, June 11, 2003. From a pay phone at the southeast corner of Page... More >>

• Vanishing Act: Six years after the fact, the disappearance of nine-year-old Christian Ferguson remains a mystery. A Riverfront Times Special Report.

  published March 18, 2009

  Three years old, with baby fat still puffing out his cheeks, the boy in the video grins up at the dreadlocked woman towering over him and... More >>

• Fields of Plastic

  published March 11, 2009

  Combing our fine city streets, we've all been accosted by a fluttering plastic bag chucked out of a car by some littering schmuck and thought:... More >>

• "I Want That School:" Charter schools long to find a home in dormant St. Louis classrooms

  published February 11, 2009

  Rhonda Broussard went out shopping in late 2007 for a building to house the St. Louis Language Immersion Schools, a set of French- and... More >>

• Sign of the Times: The inescapable presence of a towering message board on Highway 40 has some Frontenac residents seeing red

  published January 14, 2009

  Mark Alexander estimates he's poured $150,000 into his three-bedroom ranch house in the three years since his family moved to Frontenac. The... More >>