Robert W. Duffy
Robert W. Duffy reported on arts and culture for St. Louis Public Radio from 2013-2016. He had a 32-year career at the Post-Dispatch, then helped to found the St. Louis Beacon, which merged in 2013 with St. Louis Public Radio. He wrote about the visual arts, music, architecture and urban design throughout his career. An archive if his writing for the St. Louis Beacon can be found here, along with his stories for STLPR.
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 16, 2011 - We Were Here, Directed by David Weissman, U.S. | 90 minutes, 6:30 p.m. Nov. 17,…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: August 23, 2008 - Barbara S. Eagleton, widow of former U.S. Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton of St. Louis and…
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Forty years ago this week the lights went down on the Loretto-HiltonTheatre in Webster Groves. A special brand of illumination radiated that first night,… -
A late autumn's promise has bloomed in the spring: a once-hidden architectural gem in St. Louis is open to the public at last.U-Haul International Inc.… -
Two St. Louis area sites are among hundreds of locations around the globe being featured in an exotic festival of places of interest this Saturday.Atlas… -
An art-related virtual reality system is taking some St. Louis students to places filled with beauty and inspiration without their having to move any… -
If your job were to nourish and to advance a venerable cultural institution so skillfully that its dignity and integrity would be burnished while, at the… -
For many who have died, the “good family man” description is draped upon them like an embroidered pall, often as much in the interest of being nice and… -
When the industrialist Firmin Desloge died in 1929 at 86 years of age, his various enterprises, including Missouri lead mining, made him as rich as… -
In the art exhibitions business, when you find yourself faced with the conflicting character attributes of a millionaire who built his fortune on patent… -
The old St. Mary’s Infirmary is on life support.St. Mary's -- once a valuable component of the health-care structure of St. Louis and an institution of… -
Why would anyone invite thousands of 19th-century German immigrants to join us in the middle of February, the month dedicated to American black…
