Email Author Chris Thompson

Awards

• 2007 - Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards

  "Dirty Deeds"

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2007 Stories by Chris Thompson

• Holding Pattern

  published December 11, 2007

  Along Central Avenue, in one of the more pleasant stretches of Jersey City, a small convenience store lies a block from the neighborhood cop shop.... More >>

• Chasing Rummy

  published November 27, 2007

  Michael Ratner had it tough last week. In addition to his regular duties—law professor at Columbia and Yale, defending Guantánamo... More >>

• Secret Agent Schmuck

  published October 16, 2007

  It was a morning a little more than a year ago: A dapper, gray-haired gentleman was discussing his recently published novel with the two hosts of... More >>

• No More Scars

  published September 18, 2007

  Last month, the Voice described swanky Upper East Side plastic surgeon Brad Jacobs's fight to save his career ( More >>

• Plastic Surgeon to the Scars

  published August 21, 2007

  Brad Jacobs calls himself "one of the most famous plastic surgeons in history." At his clinic on the Upper East Side, he's performed ... More >>

• NIMBY Love

  published August 14, 2007

  It's getting damn close to the end times for opponents of the Atlantic Yards project, the massive basketball, housing, and retail complex slated... More >>

• The Killing of a Journalist

  published July 31, 2007

  Last week, a man in a ski mask confronted Oakland, California, journalist Chauncey Bailey as he was walking to the downtown offices of the... More >>

• Busting the Merchant of War

  published July 17, 2007

  On February 6, two representatives from the infamous Colombian left-wing paramilitary and drug-trafficking group FARC arrived at a palatial... More >>

• Two Wheel Double-Cross

  published June 5, 2007

  When police decided to confiscate bicycles locked to poles on a block of East 6th Street two weeks ago, the scene played out according to formula.... More >>