Email Author Nicholas Phillips

Awards

• 2012 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published January 20, 2011

  "Left for Dead"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published January 20, 2011

  "Left for Dead"

• 2011 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published June 9, 2010

  "Tears of a Town"

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2009 Stories by Nicholas Phillips

• Raw-Food Gurus Mock Each Other In Ways Incomprehensible to the Rest of Society

  published Sep 10, 2009

  Had enough of the raw foodists yetr We haven't! LoL! [BURP]Yesterday we showed how raw food gurus quibble amongst themselves. But oh, sometimes it goes further: sometimes they ridicule each other via ... More >>

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  Party Drug or Positive Dietingr The Cacophony Over Raw Cacao

  published Sep 09, 2009

  This week's cover story spotlights the weird world of St. Louis' raw vegans -- those who eat no animal products, nor anything that's been heated above about 120 degrees. The Internets are filled with ... More >>

• Weed Eaters: A raw-food movement is beginning to sprout in St. Louis

  published September 9, 2009

  Angela Raines eats weeds. Lamb's quarters, purslane, dandelions — rugged plants that flourish in Missouri. The kind dogs pee on and... More >>

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  Sikeston Citizens to Learn Thriller Dance, Possibly Shatter World Record

  published Sep 03, 2009

  Back in April 2002, about 200,000 grade school kids across Canada simultaneously danced the Hokey Pokey. Thus was set the Guinness World Record for the Largest Simultaneous Dance. That record could be... More >>

• STL Big-Wigs Rockin' a Metamorphoses Marathon

  published Aug 30, 2009

  They're doing a marathon reading of Ovid's Metamorphoses right now at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts (here's a map). It'll wrap up around 7 p.m.rThe lineup is a who's who of our city's intellige... More >>

• Powers-that-be Prohibit PETA Protest Pachyderm

  published Aug 26, 2009

  PETA does not clown around about hatin' on circuses. Earlier this year, they did an uncover investigation on Ringling Brothers and posted some elephant-beating footage on the aptly named Web site, rin... More >>

• May the UrbanFORCE be with you, and hey, still looking for Cardinals home addresses?

  published August 19, 2009

  Stimulus Cash Overwhelms UrbanFORCE Thanks to the federal stimulus, Friday, August 7, was payday for hundreds of urban youths. At... More >>

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  Shower Peeing Is OK, But DON'T DO THIS

  published Aug 13, 2009

  Earlier today, we advocated peeing in the shower. We do not, however, advocate the self-generated "golden shower," demonstrated by this primate. Warning: NSFW.... More >>

• Go Ahead, Pee In the Shower: It's Not Bad for You (and It's Good for the Earth!)

  published Aug 13, 2009

  Yes it's true. Peeing in the shower is NOT unhygienic, according to this piece in the Post-Dispatch. Plus, it would apparently conserve hundreds of gallons of year per household. Why, there's a little... More >>

• Rural Missouri Man Arrested with Molotov Cocktail (Whar)

  published Aug 12, 2009

  Who knew rural Missouri was a hotbed of bomb-throwing radicalismr Yeah, no. But according to the News-Leader, a guy down in Greene County (southwest of Springfield) just got nabbed for stealing a car,... More >>

• Four Sexy Facts About That Online Prostitution Ring Busted in Missouri

  published Aug 11, 2009

  A Kansas City pair got sentenced Monday for pimpin' online (so goes the story in the Post-Dispatch). But check out these quirky details -- one of which implicates the RFT ! 1) The gentleman (36-year-o... More >>

• Dudes Who Posted on CL Missed Connections Last Week: Near-Certain FAIL

  published Aug 11, 2009

  Recall the goal of Craigslist Missed Connections: to reach someone with whom you had a positive and brief - but anonymous - encounter. Well, as we dutifully rooted through the local Missed Connections... More >>

• What do Terrorism, E. Coli, the Sunshine Law and Governor Nixon Have in Commonr This Blog Post!

  published Aug 07, 2009

  There's a new terrorism-flavored twist in "E. coli-gate."(Quick refresher: an investigation by the Kansas City Star in July revealed that the state knew that E. coli levels in the Lake of the Ozarks w... More >>

• Free Goonies Tonight at Union Station

  published Aug 06, 2009

  Yeah, they're showing Goonies on a big screen tonight at Union Station for FREE. Details here.Should you gorChew on this while you decide: "Our parents, they want the best of stuff for us. But right n... More >>

• Terrifyingly Badass Video from MO Highway Law Enforcers, Special Glenn Frey Edition

  published Aug 05, 2009

  Hey two-bit scoundrels: think you can horse around on Missouri highways this summer and get away with itr  Think again. THE HEAT IS ON!!!!(Click here to be terrified. Or just watch below.) ... More >>

• How To Pick Up Boys While Shopping for a Pregnancy Test

  published Aug 04, 2009

  Each week, we scour the local Missed Connections section of Craigslist, in search of the best posts. Here are some that caught our eye recently. rPregnancy test - I know this is weird - w4m - 19 - (Wa... More >>

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  Man Writes "FUCK" on Building, Calls It "NEOART," Goes to Jail

  published Aug 03, 2009

  Who is David Reeves (a.k.a., ShiniGami)r The 51-year-old's own Web site portrays him as a toy designer and graffiti artist of international reputation. Some on Cherokee Street view him as more pest th... More >>

• Cross-dresser Flaunts His Twig & Berries to Entire Hannibal Shopping Center

  published Jul 31, 2009

  Here's a scandalous tale from today's Hannibal Courier-Post: The lunch hour was pretty typical on Thursday at the Huck Finn Shopping Center...typical, that is, until police officers who happened to be... More >>

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  Monkey See, Monkey DON'T

  published Jul 30, 2009

  Folks: there's a lesson about crime and monkeys we can all learn from Michael and Lisa Shinkle of Buchanan County (near St. Joseph, Missouri). If you're in the market for pig-tailed macaques, don't ge... More >>

• Things That Make You Go BOOM!

  published Jul 29, 2009

  On Monday, an 89-year-old lady walked into Maplewood's City Hall. She'd found something that belonged to her husband, and brought it in because she didn't know what to do with it. Yeah, it was a HAND ... More >>

• To Catch a [Southern Missouri] Predator

  published Jul 24, 2009

   Recently, in the small southern-Missouri town of Crane, a blue mustang was rolling toward a carwash. Its driver - Jeffrey Dale Wommack of Springfield - was expecting to meet up with a 14-year-ol... More >>

• Oh, Funny like "Ha-Ha": Stand-Up in the CWE

  published Jul 23, 2009

  Local practitioners of stand-up are confined like lepers to the perimeter of St. Louis - between Westport and the Landing, few venues ever host their kind. But last evening, five of them were lured in... More >>

• Hey, Sorry About That Hole I Put In Your Colon...Want a Painkillerr

  published Jul 22, 2009

  Imagine that a doctor inserts a thin tube into your intestines to poke around (a.k.a., a colonoscopy), then proceeds to...fall asleep. This actually happened at Des Peres Hospital in 2003, and not bec... More >>

• Weird Animal Abundance in Missouri

  published Jul 21, 2009

  Mother Nature has been oddly generous to Missouri outdoorsmen this year, and here's one more example.  First we had that huge bumpercrop of paddlefish. Then our state's fishermen started breaking... More >>

• Don Weir To Get His Just Deserts - But Not Just Yet

  published Jul 20, 2009

  Our feature story last week told the tale of Don C. Weir, Jr., the Town & Country man who stole millions in precious-metal coins from his clients to bankroll a privileged lifestyle. He was suppose... More >>