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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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]
Friday, August 26, 2022
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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]
Friday, June 10, 2022
Monday, May 9, 2022
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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]

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