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First Look: Wright's Tavern in Clayton Celebrates Steakhouse Classics

2 years 6 months ago
Matt McGuire and Cary McDowell may have opened Wright's Tavern (7624 Wydown Boulevard, Clayton; 314-390-1466)  just a little over a week ago, but the restaurant has been in the making for much longer — about 23 years. "I met Matt 23 years ago at King Louie's; I met my wife, Holly, there, so my love affair with Matt began with my love affair with Holly," McDowell says. "I started holding court there, and we became best friends.
Cheryl Baehr

How MoBot used plant DNA to convict a Missouri killer

2 years 6 months ago
Conservation geneticist Christy Edwards never expected to use her knowledge of plant phenotyping to help solve a murder. The experience seemed more akin to a script of “Law and Order” or “CSI”: A young wife and new mother disappears, the investigators suspect her husband of foul play, and they just need the evidence to prove it. Instead of blood, mud and juniper needles become the focus — and Edwards and her colleagues at the Missouri Botanical Garden rush to collect samples and analyze over 100 trees around Mengqi Ji’s burial site, evidence that ultimately ties her husband to the crime.

Way of Lights

2 years 6 months ago

The National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows sparkles in winter as its annual Christmas light display, Way of Lights, illuminates the grounds.   All are invited to witness

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Rachel Huffman

Garden Glow

2 years 6 months ago

Garden Glow at the Missouri Botanical Garden dazzles visitors with its exquisite light displays year after year.   Celebrate the season with more than one million twinkling lights, beautiful projections,

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Rachel Huffman

Biden signs law extending marriage protections to same-sex and interracial couples

2 years 6 months ago

WASHINGTON — Same-sex and interracial couples had many of their marriage rights codified Tuesday when President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan marriage equality bill during a ceremony attended by thousands outside the White House. In a brief speech, Biden told supporters on the South Lawn that “marriage is a simple proposition — who do you […]

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Jennifer Shutt

Drone Updates Kirkwood Apartment Progress

2 years 6 months ago
Editor’s Note: This week, Forum Drone Pilot/Photographer Louis Kelly of Drone Eagle LLC provides an update onapartments being constructed at the former location of the United Missouri Bank in Kirkwood. Demolition has been completed and sitework is underway on the five-story apartment complex. The 152-unit apartment building, to be called “The James” is the first […]
Tom Finan