The Commonspace > December 2004

Church and State:
By Larry Handlin
Red and Blue Make...Policy Fights?
Statistics, margins and ruminations on a growing schism between urbanized and exurbanized regions of Missouri >>

Games:
By Paul Caudell
Total Hack
Long associated with only bad kids and burnouts, hacky sack's followed me well into "responsible" adulthood >>

Expatriates:
By Christy Augustin
Big, but Not So Easy
A homesick St. Louisan looks longingly upriver >>

Communities:
By Ben Looker
A City Built to Music
A cadre of avant-garde musicians once polarized the city's jazz scene, but now is revered >>

From the Source:
By Michael R. Allen
We Lose More than the Century Building
Seemingly individual alterations here and there add up to an irreparable downtown fabric >>

It's All Happening:
By Amanda E. Doyle
Baby, It's Boring at Home
Bundle up and shake a leg to bid farewell to 2004 >>

Young Minds:
By Maryanne Dersch
Magnet-School Gamble
Chance and consternation on the magnet-school quest >>

The Ordinary Eye:
By Amanda E. Doyle
I Love a Parade
The St. Louis Thanksgiving Day Parade marked its 20th year...and its status as the second largest televised holiday parade in the country. We've got scenes from the route. >>

Elsewhere:
By Aaron Wilcher
Exile Tourism
Underneath the hulking promise of cities — grit, and grace >>

Sights and Sounds:
By Amanda E. Doyle and John Ginsburg
Rock the Vote, Swing that Thing, Get on the Good Foot...and Chow Down
Noted in November >>

Media Shoegaze:
By Amanda E. Doyle and Ed Bishop
Is Pulitzer Prized?
We spoke to the editor of the St. Louis Journalism Review the day that Pulitzer Company announced it was exploring a sale that would include its flagship newspaper, the Post-Dispatch >>

A Day's Work:
By Amanda E. Doyle
Girl on Film
Eleven questions with Andrea Sporcic >>

From the Editor:
By Amanda E. Doyle
Tie a Yellow (Pink/Orange/Red/Camo) Ribbon 'Round the SUV
Before long, we're going to need an Activist's Color-Coded Legend >>