Danny Wicentowski
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Danny Wicentowski
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Coincidence chaser. Producer STLPR "St Louis on the Air" @stlonair.bsky.social, "We Live Here," host "America Skyjacker", ex-staff writer Riverfront Times (RIP). Wi-sen-tau-skee. He/him.
email: [email protected]
web: stlpr.org/people/danny-wicentowsk
"For a story so wild, the film’s achievement lies in its restraint. American Skyjacker is gripping without being lurid, stylish without leaning on cliché, and genuinely gripping from start to finish."

American Skyjacker is now on Apple TV! It's been magical watching the reviews start to come in
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"The headline is still up on Duck Duck Go...it's your byline dude"

Each text is more baffling and bro-coded than the last, just baffling.
October 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Guess who's back?

It's me as host of the podcast "American Skyjacker," bringing you a NEW EPISODE and something very special: A never-before-revealed memoir, authored by notorious escape artist, plane hijacker, and manipulator Garrett Trapnell.

open.spotify.com/episode/6Qor...
October 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Guess who's back?

It's me as host the podcast "American Skyjacker," bringing you a NEW EPISODE and something very special: A never-before-revealed memoir, authored by notorious escape artist, plane hijacker, and manipulator Garrett Trapnell.

open.spotify.com/episode/6Qor...
October 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
One of the protesters that day told me:

"I just want to say, with all this chaos is going on, I'm not going to blame it on the police. But I'm just saying, they [the police] need to get out here in the streets, they need to talk to people."

authory.com/DannyWicento...
August 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The killing, on August 19, 2015, led to a landmark $19 million judgement against the officer who killed him. Instead of paying, the City of St. Louis is fighting for a new trial.

The protests the day of the shooting were some of the most chaotic I've covered. Tear gas and fires marked the night.
August 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
In 2018 I returned to the story of that helicopter pilot, whose memorial page drew McNally out.

Allen Barklage was so many things -- being the one who foiled McNally's plans was just one. He was a legend in every sense. His flight log for 5/24/78 was one word: "Hijack"

authory.com/DannyWicento...
August 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Sheriff
July 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I've mentioned this before, but it's just WILD to me this is the SECOND consecutive St. Louis sheriff who won their office after accusing the previous sheriff of retaliation for firing them for running for sheriff.

Yes, it's confusing.
July 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
June 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Ah yes, FOIA, the "Freedom of Information that officials think the public wants to know about, but not negative stuff like our own students losing their visas and facing deportation" ...Act.

dailyegyptian.com/121261/news/...

Yikes
April 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Along with Martin, "Guests at the Naples event constituted a who’s who of MAGA figures accused of crimes," reports @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social, and well that is some list
April 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
What a long, strange journey for St. Louis' infamous Workhouse, which began demolition today.
March 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
March 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The kicker: The case Hawley linked to showing Perkins is an "abortion lawyer?" The case involved MO, ID and KS suing to ban the abortion pill -- *after* the Supreme Court's unanimous '24 decision authored by Brett Kavanaugh (btw, not an abortion lawyer), upholding the access to the abortion pill.
March 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Hawley's objections to Hilary Perkins' appointment:

- She's a "Biden abortion lawyer" who "has argued FOR Biden’s outrageous pro-abortion rules"

- She argued for vaccine mandates and said objections to the covid protections were conspiratorial.
March 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I had the pleasure of meeting Eddie, one of the St. Louis Six, in 2019.

Eddie is one of five known deaths to occur in the Gentle Barn's former Missouri residents since it closed its sanctuary here in October 2024. www.stlpr.org/show/st-loui...
March 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
March 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Very serious Missouri GOP state rep files troll bills to rename, uh, every bridge after a fellow lawmaker?

themissouritimes.com/from-vice-ch...
March 4, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Don't tell me what to do, you're not my fruit manager.
March 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
February 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Remembering the time in 2016 that Ed Martin -- currently interim U.S. Attorney -- explained to a crowd of "Tea Party for Trump" supporters that "You're not racist if you don't like Mexicans" because Mexicans are not a race.

www.riverfronttimes.com/news/things-...
February 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
February 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
This package is unbothered. Arriving and departing. Focused. Flourishing. In transit. Forever.
January 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I'm tired of being angry about weather, I'm ready to be angry about MAIL
January 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM