This morning's Post-Dispatch reports the death of Carrie Lindsey, who wrote for the inaugural issue of theCommonspace, and was better known as the creator of the former NoisyPaper and the former noisemakers Yahoo group, catered to alternative musicians. Publications like Playback St. Louis carry on the tradition.

Her husband Mike Shelton, 54, and their 14-year-old daughter Emily, about to start school at Webster Groves High School, were also killed, along with the two occupants of the car that collided with theirs in a freak accident on I-55 near Troy, Illinois. Carrie Lindsey was 50.