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, March 6, 2012 - My take on Thomas Wolfe's observation that "you can't go home again" is that going…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Feb. 28, 2012 - One subject all of us need to know more about is the rich architectural heritage we…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Feb. 21, 2012 - It's no mystery why I am devoted to the PBS television series “Downton Abbey” or why,…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Feb. 1, 2012 - Ted Pettus, one of my oldest, best and most talented friends, was in town this weekend…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Jan. 26, 2012 - I was on hand at a meeting back in the early 1990s when the Arts and Education…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Jan. 9, 2012 - The Rev. Anne Kelsey, visibly moved, advanced to the front of the nave of Trinity…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Dec. 5, 2012 - Every morning as I open the front door of my apartment I look southward. Looming in…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 21, 2011 - The documentary filmmaker Grace Guggenheim was in town recently to introduce a…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 11, 2011 - The Pruitt-Igoe Myth, Directed by Chad Freidrichs, 79 minutes/U.S.3 p.m. at Brown…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 10, 2011 - A young soprano named Corinne Winters is being honored today (Nov. 10) not so much…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 3, 2011 - To appreciate of the complexity of Paul A. Dewald, who died Thursday, and to discover…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 24, 2011 - I'm here in the public confessional not looking for absolution but hoping to employ…