That final episode of Mad Men is iconic for good reason, as it perfectly captures 1950s ad man Don Draper moving into the groovy late-1960s by both achieving hippie spiritual enlightenment and also learning how to use said enlightenment to sell soda. However, even more importantly for Jon Hamm, St. Louis' favorite son and one of the city's most ardent boosters, it was on the set of the Mad Men finale that he met his future wife, Anna Osceola.
We've had many favorite animals at the Saint Louis Zoo, but we were still not prepared for the joy that would enter our hearts when we encountered Rhubarb the ginger monkey. A Francois' langur (pronounced frahn-SWAH LANG-err), her beautiful hair was the color of the setting sun when she was just a newborn babe.
3610 Grandel Square, kranzberg-artsfoundation.org/the-grandel Today the Grandel Theatre is a multi-use space holding a theater, room for private events and the Dark Room, a nonprofit performance space, photography gallery, restaurant and bar.
601 South Holmes Avenue,
Kirkwood; bikegrantstrail.com Grant's Trail is 10 miles of walking and biking bliss, where the only human interaction you're expected to participate in is maybe nodding when someone flies past you in the opposite direction.
Multiple locations including 13343 Manchester Road, Des Peres; traderjoes.com Now that "girl dinner" has become a pop culture phenomenon, everybody has finally figured out that women just want to eat a series of snacks for dinner and call it done.
3503 Roger Place, friendlyssportsbar.com If you're looking to meet a cishet man who is into cishet man things like sports and fried food, head on down to Friendly's, because that's pretty much all they serve here.
If we're being honest, the Circuit Attorney's Office has been a heck of a lot less fun to cover since Kim Gardner resigned in May. No, the office hasn't been perfect since former federal prosecutor and Dowd Bennett partner Gabriel Gore took over on May 30, but things have been way less chaotic. While that may be a bummer for the city's journos, it's a godsend for everyone else.
Former alderman Brandon Bosley got a head start on the 2023 competition when, a few days before last Christmas, he pulled a gun on a woman lying in the snow and threatened to shoot her — all while streaming the proceedings on Facebook. The scion of a local political dynasty claimed that the woman had tried to carjack him, though the story never really added up.
We defended Kim Gardner a long time — longer than we should have. We knew the justice system needed reform, and we were hopeful that, for all her flaws, she could be a change agent.
Mary Anne Sedey is well under five feet tall, with the kind of high-energy warmth that leads people to deploy metaphors like "firecracker" and "pistol." It's impossible not to enjoy her company — unless, perhaps, you're facing off in court.
Missouri has been on a "killing spree." That's the way Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty co-director Michelle Smith describes the state's use of capital punishment.
For the modern urbanist, Shaw seemingly has it all: street after street of attractive homes, storefront businesses, great park access, young families and even a corner ice cream shop. But more than that, it has a spirit of resilience well-honed by decades of commitment to city life.
The McPherson blog has been quiet as of late, but maybe that's because the man behind it, Jack Grone, has moved his commentary over to X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter. @McPherSTL's posts often highlight what isn't being said in the political conversation du jour: the silence of city officials as Kim Gardner's office crashed and burned, their generally quiet acceptance of Mayoral Dad Virvus Jones' trolling tweets.
St. Louis isn't the easiest city from which to launch yourself to social media stardom. The most-Instagrammable of backdrops — white sand beaches, picturesque mountains, McLaren dealerships — are hard to come by in these parts. But Tony Bame hasn't let that get in his way.
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