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What Summertime Event Or Experience Are You Most Looking Forward To?
“I always discover new things at the Tower Grove Farmers’ Market: unfamiliar produce, intriguing made-to-order food, and unusual gift items.” –George Mahe, Dining Editor “You’ll find me enjoying a picnic at the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Whitaker Mu
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Twenty '24 st. Louis Best Law Firms® Featuring Some Of The Region's top Legal Services
The Best Law Firms ® 2024 is published by BL Rankings, LLC 801 Broad Street, Suite 950, Augusta, GA, and can be ordered directly from the publisher. For information, visit www.bestlawfirms.com. BL Rankings, LLC, has used its best efforts in assemblin
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Excellence In nursing Awards 2024
As a school nurse at Ladue Middle School, Williams is used to wearing different hats. She’s responsible for monitoring students with life-threatening illnesses and managing medications. She also helps students who simply aren’t feeling well. Although
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Starry Nights
IT’S WONDROUS TO WITNESS, as the late St. Louis poet Mona Van Duyn once put it, “the heavens whirl and drift their weightless riches through streaky splendors of joy.” But before you go stargazing, be sure to research what’s visible and to be mindful
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The Honorees
Alexandra Castrop Missouri Baptist Medical Center Dana Kirksey ArchWell Health Katelyn Krekeler Missouri Baptist Medical Center Susan Jones Mercy Hospital South Amy Robinson Missouri Baptist Medical Center Jeanette Scott Barnes-Jewish Hospital Mary K
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Dip & Dunk
Fifteen or so years ago, a taquero in Tijuana, Mexico, thought to fill tortilla shells with cheese and birria (goat stew), a dish native to Jalisco, Mexico, thereby creating the quesabirria (cheese plus birria) taco. Several thousand social media pos
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How Did Streetcars First Roll Out In St. Louis?
MANY ST. LOUISANS look back misty-eyed at the city's once-extensive streetcar system, which went extinct in 1966 with a final ride of the Hodiamont Line to the Wellston Loop. That was, however, merely a sad end to a 100-yearold history. The emergence
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Brotherly Love
THERE ARE NO sure bets in the restaurant industry, but when accomplished owners (the Café Napoli team) combine coal-fired pizza (a first in the region) with an established pasta program and locate the upstart concept in one of the hottest areas in to
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In Bloom
EIGHT YEARS AGO, Michael and Tara Gallina made a decision that would alter the course of their lives. Fresh from their experience working at the acclaimed Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Tarrytown, New York (where Michael was chef de cuisine and Tara was
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50+ Ideas For Cool Days And Hot Nights
STAY UP GET MOVING DIVE IN TREAT YOURSELF A NEW LOOK FOR CHAIN OF ROCKS PARK A multiyear development effort has reimagined Chain of Rocks Park (10820 Riverview) as a place where outdoor lovers can relax, catch a show, and spot some beautiful birds, a
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Tech Talk
Long before Jim Kavanaugh ever ran a tech company or owned a pro sports team, he was a boy tasked with maintenance work in a Downtown West lot. Kavanaugh’s father was a bricklayer and the business manager for the Bricklayers Union when it moved into
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Reimagined River
ST. LOUISANS REMEMBER the torrent. July 26, 2022: Twelve inches of rain in 12 hours—the most recorded here in a single day. So much water in certain spots that cars peeked from the surface like crocodiles, MetroLink tunnels looked like rivers, and th
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Insights From Iowa
Electeds come and go, but a city’s residents remain. In Dubuque, Cavanagh said, things started taking shape when they got involved—and stayed patiently ambitious: “Rather than saying, ‘Nah, that seems too difficult, I don’t think we should turn this
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A New Chapter
WHEN JOANNA JACKSON and her husband moved to St. Louis from Louisville four years ago, the selftaught artist found herself in the pandemic lockdown, along with everyone else. But this gave the newly retired Jackson time to stock her Etsy site with ne
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A New Way
BUILT ON SITE AT LAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK in 1980, “The Way” has been the park’s pièce de résistance for more than 40 years. But decades of wear and tear on the 18 salvaged steel oil tanks that make up “The Way” meant that sculptor Alexander Liberman’
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Top Dentists 2024
LOCAL PROS TO KNOW This list is excerpted from the 2024 topDentists™ list, a database which includes listings for more than 400 dentists and specialists in the greater St. Louis area. The St. Louis area list is based on thousands of detailed evaluati
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From The Editor
“WHY DO WE do this to ourselves?” I muttered to my wife earlier this year, as I changed our clocks to daylight savings time and said goodbye to an hour of sleep. It wasn’t until later that night, while sitting on our backyard patio with our kids and
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Read This Now
St. Louis long ago earned the nickname “Mound City,” inspired by the huge earthworks left behind by the oncethriving Mississippian people. Nearly all such earthworks on the western side of the Mississippi River were razed by settlers during the 1800s
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Take a Stroll
ON A PLEASANT DAY, it’s hard to top packing a picnic, meeting up with family and friends, and enjoying a casual jaunt through a nearby picturesque park. Here are just a handful of favorite spots, some in the heart of the city (Forest Park, Tower Grov
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Thereby Hangs A Tale
THE ST. LOUIS SHAKESPEARE Festival is kicking off its 24th season with As You Like It from 2 May 29-June 23, bringing local arts luminaries—and some Gilded Age glitz—to Shakespeare Glen in Forest Park. The pastoral comedy follows heroine Rosalind and
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May 10 THINGS TO DO
1. Maifest heralds the arrival of spring, so celebrate the warmer days and Missouri’s German heritage during this family-friendly festival, featuring local artisans, food and brewery vendors, and entertainment. May 19. New Town at St. Charles, midwes
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The Game's Afoot
WHAT BEGAN AS A WEEKEND of board games hosted at one friend’s home in 2005 has grown to a days-long gaming convention that welcomes thousands of hobbyists to St. Charles. Geekway to the West (geekway.com), held this year from May 16–19, is a four-day
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St. Louis Magazine
EDITORIAL Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Jarrett Medlin Deputy Editor Emily Adams Senior Editor Nicholas Phillips Managing Editor Christine Jackson Associate Editor Mike Miller Interns Sophie Ayers, Eliana Jenkins DESIGN Editor-in-Chief Veronica Theodor
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Sweet Pancit
AFTER HEARING ABOUT the homestyle Filipino fare at Manileño, we went in hoping for a plate of lutong bahay. Instead, we found a relatively small array of typical Filipino restaurant dishes and started to get uncharacteristically grumpy—until we took
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Wellston Loop Station
DESIGNED IN 1909 BY MARTIN ARHELGER, THE WELLSTON LOOP STATION MARKED THE END OF THE STREETCAR LINE THAT CAME UP EASTON AVENUE AND ANCHORED ONE OF THE REGION’S BUSIEST SHOPPING DISTRICTS. BUILT FOR THE UNITED RAILWAYS CO. IN THE ARTS AND CRAFTS STYLE
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Players Gild
One of the big ideas that director Nancy Bell brought to this production of As You Like It is setting it in the Gilded Age. This period of American history, between the 1870s and the 1890s, was marked by postReconstruction economic growth, material e
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ARCHITECT & DESIGNER AWARDS 2024
FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF FINALISTS, VISIT STLMAG.COM/ADA. Susan Bower BOWER LEET DESIGN Kim Taylor K TAYLOR DESIGN GROUP This house balances rustic elements with sophisticated finishes. Stone and wood wrap the interior and exterior in a design that emb
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Make it Midcentury
SUSAN HALLA, OWNER of online home improvement business Make it Mid Century, first fell in love with architecture as a kid growing up in St. Louis. Her mom would drive her around the city, and as they cruised past the mansions on Lindell across from F
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Fantastic Fabrics
THE CAROLYN C. AND William A. McDonnell Gallery at the Saint Louis Art Museum is small, but the softly lit, corridor-like space plays host to some of the most exciting exhibitions on the SLAM calendar. In the gallery, curators take turns highlighting
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Tips For Working With A Designer
“To me, finding a designer is like interviewing a roommate,” Moore says. “We see you when you're bickering with your spouse; we see what your kids are like; we see what your house looks like when you haven't cleaned it… so you have to have a designer
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