Email Author Mike Seely

Awards

• 2011 - Pacific Northwest Excellence in Journalism Awards/Society of Professional Journalists Region 10, published February 10, 2010

  "Free in the Key"

• 2010 - Pacific Northwest Excellence in Journalism Awards/Society of Professional Journalists Region 10, published March 4, 2009

  "The Leon Hendrix Experience"

• 2009 - Pacific Northwest Excellence in Journalism Awards/Society of Professional Journalists Region 10, published April 16, 2008

  "The Lunatic is on the Drums"

• 2008 - Pacific Northwest Excellence in Journalism Awards/Society of Professional Journalists Region 10, published August 22, 2007

  "The Salvage Artist"

• 2008 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published August 22, 2007

  "The Salvage Artist"

• 2006 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published September 21, 2005

  "Alley Cat"

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2003 Stories by Mike Seely

• Crack Up

  published March 5, 2003

  With his stocky frame, go-go bravado and uncanny resemblance to King of Queens star Kevin James, Creve Coeur resident Bob Kodner is hardly... More >>

• Valley Rally

  published March 5, 2003

  Perhaps the signature trait of men's college basketball in the late twentieth century was the rush to create "superconferences" such as Conference... More >>

• Trailer Park Travoltas with Earl

  published March 5, 2003

  When we first stumbled on the Trailer Park Travoltas in September, they were playing to a crowd of stage parents, jugglers and... More >>

• Various Artists

  published March 5, 2003

  Universal Music Group, the most prolific major-label purveyor of recycled schlock, might as well call itself the Steaming Pile of Dog Crap... More >>

• Season on the Drink

  published February 19, 2003

  Stud senior guard Marque Perry and his St. Louis University teammates are clinging to a narrow 39-36 second-half lead over the favored DePaul Blue... More >>

• SheBron's Truth

  published February 12, 2003

  Whenever superscout Bob Gibbons is in St. Louis, he makes a point of picking the brain of longtime Savvis Center security guard Jesse Whitaker, a... More >>

• Drinkin' Dirt

  published February 5, 2003

  Beer man Marc Reutter woke up one morning and felt a pain in his back. Figuring maybe he had tweaked it throwing freight at a Shop 'n Save or... More >>

• White-Trash Junction

  published February 5, 2003

  Los Angeles record-company flack Erin Lazarus was coming off a robust New Year's Eve bender with the Flaming Lips in Chicago when she was met with... More >>

• Mood Indigo

  published February 5, 2003

  Opening for the Grateful Dead at Autzen Stadium in the ultraliberal collegiate hamlet of Eugene, Oregon, is tantamount to staring across the net... More >>

• Cold Comfort

  published January 29, 2003

  It's the first weekend in August, and roughly 1,000 people are crowded into Chicago's sparkling little Vic Theatre. Onstage, Coldplay -- the... More >>

• Half-Pint of Courvoisier With Ginger Ale Chaser

  published January 15, 2003

  For any of you suckers who gave up hard liquor as your New Year's resolution, Peretha Lewis is kindly asking you to shelve that ridiculously... More >>

• Phish

  published January 8, 2003

  Phish is back -- a new album, a new tour, the whole kit and caboodle. And not a moment too soon: Without Phish, the nomadic throng of folks with a... More >>

• Import Duty

  published January 1, 2003

  For first-year St. Louis University basketball player Izik Ohanon, a six-foot-nine forward who grew up in the Tel Aviv suburb of Bat-Yam, the... More >>