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Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Honor the fallen with St. Louis-area Memorial Day parades, ceremonies by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Events include ceremonies at cemeteries, parades and a fireworks display.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 11:30AM
Friday, May 12, 2023

St. Louis Zoo plans $40 million Destination Discovery in old children's zoo area by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The children’s zoo area at the St. Louis Zoo will be rebuilt as a place where children and families can interact with and be inspired by animals.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:45PM
Monday, April 10, 2023

Missouri History Museum exhibition celebrates St. Louis as a true soccer city by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Soccer City" opens April 8 at the Missouri History Museum with an all-day celebration.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:00AM
Friday, March 31, 2023

Landmarks Association preserves one of St. Louis' oldest buildings to use as its own by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A stone cottage within the Soulard complex dates to the 1830s, and may have been built for the Soulard family.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:00PM
Thursday, March 30, 2023

‘King of Retro’ Charles Phoenix celebrates ‘time warps and treasures’ in live show by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Charles Phoenix, who has made a career of celebrating Americana and midcentury marvels, will show off some St. Louis treasures.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:30PM
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Ben, the St. Louis Zoo’s escapee bear, is moving to a new zoo. It has a moat. by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Ben briefly escaped twice in February from his enclosure at the St. Louis Zoo.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:45AM
Thursday, March 9, 2023

Visits to Gateway Arch National Park jump 41% by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

About 1.62 million people visited in 2022. In the late 1990s, the park regularly welcomed about 3.5 million a year.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:30PM
Tuesday, March 7, 2023

A slightly judgy look at some of St. Louis’ bad-news bears (and a few good ones) by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For good measure, we threw in some beloved bears. The region is a honeypot, after all.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:45AM
Saturday, February 25, 2023

Historic Jewel Box in Forest Park gets a $79K face-lift by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Jewel Box reopens Saturday after being closed for nearly two weeks for its first major overhaul in 20 years.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:15AM
Thursday, February 23, 2023

Andean bear at the St. Louis Zoo escapes enclosure again by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Ben escaped from his enclosure briefly on Thursday afternoon after making another brief escape Feb. 7.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:15PM
Monday, February 13, 2023

A Black neighborhood once stood on CityPark site. A new sculpture confronts its destruction. by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Pillars of the Valley” is a series of eight granite pillars that evoke hourglasses. The installation stands outside the southwest corner of the stadium.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:30PM
Wednesday, February 8, 2023

St. Louis Zoo, Chicago zoo swap male gorillas to help save endangered species by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Jontu, 26, formerly of the St. Louis Zoo, and Zachary, 7, formerly of the Brookfield Zoo, made the move earlier this month.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:30PM
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Glass artist Chihuly will bring ‘most ambitious’ exhibition to Missouri Botanical Garden by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The exhibit, “Glass in the Garden 2023,” opens May 2 and runs through Oct. 15.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:10AM
Sunday, January 15, 2023

Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation gifts pieces of historic theater to City Museum by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation gave the pieces to the museum. They had been sitting in storage for more than 60 years.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:10AM
Monday, November 28, 2022

After delays, Old Courthouse renovations expected to begin in early 2023 by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The work was awarded to St. Louis-based Tarlton Corp., officials announced Monday. The landmark has been closed since March 2020.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:45PM
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Helping the hellbenders: St. Louis experts work to breed struggling species by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Eastern and Ozark hellbenders spent 160 million years mostly hiding in rivers and streams. But in just a few decades, they’re now quickly disappearing.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 06:42AM
Friday, September 16, 2022

Frank Lloyd Wright homes have fix-it lists, too. Here’s how St. Louis caretakers tackle them. by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Pappas house in Town and Country and the Kraus home in Kirkwood, the St. Louis area's only Wright-designed homes, are in very different stages of preservation.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:43PM
Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Fall brings harvest of more than 40 St. Louis festivals, fairs, family events by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Celebrating fall in St. Louis isn’t so much about the cooler weather and an abundant harvest as it is about the end of a sweltering summer.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 03:25PM
Friday, August 26, 2022

Missouri Botanical Garden will debut $100 million visitor center this weekend by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center replaces Ridgway Center, built in 1982.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:13PM
Friday, August 19, 2022

Step into a coloring book of St. Louis landmarks at Missouri History Museum by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Missouri History Museum creates a larger-than-life coloring book of St. Louis landmarks and architecture.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:04AM
Thursday, August 11, 2022

1820s Bissell Mansion, longtime dinner theater venue, is for sale for $250,000 by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The nearly 6,000-square-foot mansion has four large rooms on each floor, a central staircase and maybe a few ghosts.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:54PM
Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Corpse flower at MoBot still blooming, and stinking, for visitors Wednesday by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Admission for St. Louis city and St. Louis County residents is free until noon at Missouri Botanical Garden.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:07PM
Friday, July 8, 2022

Missouri Botanical Garden digs into sounds made by plants and wood by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Botanical Resonance" is on view through March at the Missouri Botanical Garden Sachs Museum.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:03PM
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Holocaust museum in Creve Coeur announces Nov. 2 opening by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The $21 million expansion of the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum will quadruple the space of the previous facility.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:48PM
Wednesday, June 15, 2022

'Freedom Suits Memorial' statue takes its place at St. Louis Civil Courts building by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The statue, which will be formally dedicated at 5 p.m. Monday, honors enslaved people who sought their freedom through the courts.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:48PM
Saturday, June 11, 2022

Plan for Juneteenth celebrations with this guide to St. Louis-area events by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021 and falls on Father's Day this year.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:18AM
Friday, June 10, 2022
Monday, May 9, 2022

St. Louis Zoo welcomes Astrid, critically endangered Somali wild ass born April 8 by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Astrid is the first Somali wild ass born at the St. Louis Zoo since 2019.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 06:42PM
Thursday, April 21, 2022

New tours at City Museum honor its history, attempt to explain the chaos by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Maria Cassilly, the daughter-in-law of City Museum's late founder, is also the attraction's chief archivist and tours manager.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:06PM
Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Welcome, Ficus! St. Louis Zoo welcomes first monkey born since opening of outdoor primate habitat by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Ficus is a Guereza colobus monkey who is part of the largest family group to live at the zoo.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:18PM
Friday, April 1, 2022

Let's go, Blues — but how? St. Louis Science Center explores history, physics, technology of hockey by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Hockey: Faster Than Ever” will help St. Louis Science Center visitors learn about the science behind the sport.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 06:48PM

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