Email Author Tom Finkel

2009 Stories by Tom Finkel

• Ohio Finally Tries Out New Execution Method RFT Wrote About Five Years Ago

  published Dec 08, 2009

  Earlier today Ohio prison officials executed a death row inmate with an injection of a single drug, rather than the three-chemical intravenous series that has been used throughout the U.S. s... More >>

• KSHE Klassics -- A YouTube Compendium (Part 2)

  published Dec 04, 2009

  And now what you've all been waiting for: The second and final installment in RFT's carefully curated hastily thrown together assemblage of YouTubery that reflects the KSHE Klassics of our (or someone... More >>

• KSHE Klassics -- A YouTube Compendium (Part 1)

  published Dec 03, 2009

  In this week's issue, Annie Zaleski heralds the arrival of In Concert: KSHE and 40+ Years of Rock in St. Louis, a scrapbook of the area's latter-day music history. Reading "Raised on Radio" put a... More >>

• Doe v. Young Returns! Because There's No Such Thing As Too Much Pannus

  published Dec 02, 2009

  Two weeks after a federal jury decided that a trio of local cosmetic surgeons must pay his client $100,000 for having supplied photographs of her to Riverfront Times, attorney Richard Witzel has filed... More >>

• Return of the Pannus: Jury Reaches Verdict in "Jane Doe" Nude Photos Lawsuit

  published Nov 18, 2009

  How would you like to read the following few paragraphs and then take a little pop quizr Aw, c'mon! Think of it as an exercise in reading comprehension!r11.16.2009 4:59 pmJury awards $100,000 in RFT p... More >>

• How FOX and Major League Baseball Can Really Support Our Troops

  published Oct 29, 2009

  Though last night's World Series opener lacked a compelling plot line on the field, the dramaturgs at Major League Baseball and FOX saw to the heartstrings-pulling with a flag-waving tribute to Our Tr... More >>

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  Albert Pujols Says Comments Were Indeed Lost in Translation -- Again!

  published Oct 29, 2009

  Last week here at Daily RFT we took a look at a recent interview St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols gave to a Dominican radio station and, more precisely, explained that Pujols' comments were i... More >>

• R.I.P. Theodore Sizer, Education Reform Pioneer, 1932-2009

  published Oct 22, 2009

  The New York Times just posted an obituary of Theodore R. Sizer, founder of the Coalition of Essential Schools, who reportedly died yesterday at his home in Massachusetts.Writes Times reporter Margali... More >>

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  Albert Pujols' Comments Lost in Translation -- Againr!

  published Oct 19, 2009

  Near the end of 2006, a tempest boiled over in the local sports teapot when Albert Pujols, in an interview with reporters in his native Dominican Republic, opined that maybe he, and not Ryan Howard, w... More >>

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  Show Review + Photos + Setlist: Lucinda Williams at the Pageant, October 17, 2009

  published Oct 18, 2009

  At a little after nine o'clock Saturday night, Lucinda Williams stepped onstage at the Pageant and began a two-and-a-half-hour, two-dozen-song chronological hopscotch through her career with a charac... More >>

• Local Poet and UMSL Professor Howard Schwartz Suffers Stroke

  published Oct 16, 2009

  An e-mail arrived in my inbox late yesterday from Tsila Schwartz, whose husband Howard Schwartz is a fixture in the graduate writing program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.rSchwartz, who's 64... More >>

• Wm. Stage Reads This Weekend from Fool for Life

  published Oct 16, 2009

  A little while back former RFT writer Wm. Stage dropped off a copy of his new "memoirish" book, Fool for Life. Like so many other things that land on my desk, it soon established residency -- which is... More >>

• By the Boards: Dennis Brown on the STL Theater Scene October 8-11

  published Oct 08, 2009

  So far as openings go, it's a quiet week. The only new show is Upstream Theater's production of the U.S. premiere of Helver's Night, a Polish play by Ingmar Villqist -- though it will hardly be quiet,... More >>

• Rockies vs. Cardinals 9/27/09: The Photographer Who Caught the Catch That Probably Wasn't

  published Oct 05, 2009

  In just a moment we're going to hear from Craig Welling, a Denver blogger who snapped a photograph that was the source of much argument and consternation around the Interwebs last week.First, some bac... More >>

• Rockies vs. Cardinals 9/27/09: The Photographer Who Caught the Catch That Probably Wasn't

  published Oct 05, 2009

  In just a moment we're going to hear from Craig Welling, a Denver blogger who snapped a photograph that was the source of much argument and consternation around the Interwebs last week.First, some bac... More >>

• Rockies vs. Cardinals 9/27/09: The Photographer Who Caught the Catch That Probably Wasn't

  published Oct 05, 2009

  In just a moment we're going to hear from Craig Welling, a Denver blogger who snapped a photograph that was the source of much argument and consternation around the Interwebs last week.First, some bac... More >>

• That's a Winner! Great Rivers Biennial Follows RFT MasterMinds' Lead

  published Sep 21, 2009

  On Friday the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis announced the three winners of the 2010 Great Rivers Biennial. Two of the three are previous recipients of RFT MasterMind Awards.Established in 2004 and... More >>

• Missouri Legislature Slams Door on Access to a Bazillion Divorce Court Files

  published Sep 10, 2009

  Two weeks ago, on August 28, the state of Missouri enacted legislation that bars public access to all divorce court records that were on file before that date. Here's the official wording:452.430. Any... More >>

• By the Boards: Dennis Brown on the STL Theater Scene September 10-13

  published Sep 10, 2009

  The 2009-'10 theater season officially kicks in this weekend with the opening of the Rep season. Amadeus, Peter Shaffer's 1979 drama about one man's attempt to bring down God, is sure to provide sumpt... More >>

• MasterMind Awards 2009 Introduction

  published August 26, 2009

  Last year Riverfront Times tapped four St. Louisans to receive our inaugural MasterMind Awards. Giving away money to local creative... More >>

• Digital Love: Checking back in with local Internet radio station 3WK

  published August 26, 2009

  Early last month, the recording and Internet -radio industries finally agreed on how the latter will compensate the former for streaming music... 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 >>

• St. Louis Post-Dispatch Managing Editor Pam Maples Resigns

  published Aug 07, 2009

  The St. Louis Post-Dispatch website is reporting that managing editor Pam Maples resigned today.rThe screenshot is from a Post blog post by Steve Parker, who (as you can see) cites the source as stlto... More >>

• Remembering Chris 'Dry-Humping' Duncan

  published Jul 23, 2009

  I'm surely not the one to evaluate a trade like this one -- can you say banished for eternityr -- but I will say this about the incessant anti-Chris Duncan barrage on forums across Redbird land: I don... More >>

• Remembering Chris 'Dry-Humping' Duncan

  published Jul 23, 2009

  I'm surely not the one to evaluate a trade like this one -- can you say banished for eternityr -- but I will say this about the incessant anti-Chris Duncan barrage on forums across Redbird land: I do... More >>