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EDITOR ‌LIFE IS FULL OF UNEXPECTED TWISTS AND TURNS. TURNS THAT may lead you astray, but also turns that may lead you in a direction or onto a path you never could have imagined.

For Jim Kirchherr, he took a turn from studying history to studying broadcast journalism – a spur the moment decision that has now led him, after 27 years of hard work and dedication, to being inducted into the 2018 class of the Media Hall of Fame for his work with the local public television station on documentaries, broadcasts, public affairs and so much more. We hope you enjoy reading Kirchherr’s story, written by LN digital editor and staff writer Robyn Dexter, starting on page 60.

Also within this week’s edition, we hope you enjoy the story of Boss Brows LA, starting on page 54, told by witty LN contributing writer Denise Kruse. Kruse not only shares how Boss Brows LA came to fruition in St. Louis but also shares details the microblading process and how individuals are getting beautiful brows.

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here comes a day when the number on the scale is too frightening, or the doctor’s reports are too alarming. On that day, one call to Charles D’Angelo might just change your life.

“Every client is unique and has their own story,” the weight loss expert says. “We all can console ourselves by using distractions in response to fear and feelings. When we develop more trust in ourselves, we find real power. We can embrace a healthy approach to eating and exercise. The work I do with clients is in that space – helping to disconnect emotionally from food and gaining the freedom they deserve.”

Ralph Staiert reached his turning point when those closest to him feared the toll on his lifespan. Taking a multitude of medications

and using a C-pap machine, he knew he needed a plan that would stick – not a quick fix. His wife, Wendy, introduced Staiert to D’Angelo when she found an article on the celebrity coach in their local newspaper, eMissourian.

“The way I was going, I was afraid I might lose my life,” Staiert says. “In October 2016, I weighed 330 pounds. I met with Charles in February and signed up with him that same day.”

Staiert originally viewed food as a comfort or reward.

“The biggest obstacle was retraining my mind,” he admits. “With encouragement and insight from Charles, I realized I used food as a crutch. I no longer come home and camp out in front of the T.V. Instead, I am active again. I no longer pull myself up steps. I now run up them two at a time. I am extremely motivated and can taste my final goal – pun intended.”

Today, he has lost 140 pounds, with only 10 pounds to go. His wife also achieved her weight loss goal, shedding 95 pounds. “All because we had the courage

to get up off the couch and make that first phone call,” Staiert reflects.

D’Angelo helps clients to recognize that success can take a non-linear path. “A wise man once said, ‘Every discipline effects every other one,’” he remarks. “When you learn to keep a commitment to yourself, your selfesteem sky rockets. The ripple of changes go far beyond the numbers on the scale dropping.”

Darlene Copeland witnessed an approach to weight loss unlike any other. “Instead of fixing the obvious problem, D’Angelo solves the issue at the core,” she says. “The whole process is self-discovery. I peeled back layers that told me I had to be perfect or else I was a failure. For the first time in my life, I realize I don’t need the approval of others – just consistent progress.”

Copeland lost 107 pounds, but what she gained has left a true mark on her. “I have had a year of heartache,” she shares. “I am thankful to have something in life I can control: The exercise I do and food I eat. Charles helped me understand my power – the power of my choices.”

Darlene Copeland lost 150 pounds.

Jamie Loftus experienced a revelation when faced with her own reflection. “At the start of 2017, I did some soul searching,” she says. “I saw Charles on television and made the call. At my first meeting, I thought, ‘This is the time. I can do this!’ I started the program weighing 258 pounds. Today, I weigh 165 pounds.”

Though D’Angelo’s plan has simple steps, the physical and mental transformation requires hard work and dedication. “I now love how I look, feel, act – and I will not go back,” Loftus declares. “The most rewarding part is having my confidence back. I am a better person for it and for the other people I can affect.”

D’Angelo helps clients redesign their lives by changing their mindsets and teaching them to embrace discipline.“People who come to me aren’t really asking to just lose weight,” he says. “They are looking to feel better about their lives. Getting their energy and health back in order is the first step in that process.”

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Ralph Staiert lost 140 pounds.

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lavish winter fête, brimming with elegant young maidens bedecked in white gloves and splendid gowns. A jubilant cavalcade of high school marching bands and elaborate floats snaking through downtown St. Louis. A summertime tradition of fireworks and festivities in celebration of America’s birthday.

Mention of the Veiled Prophet Organization (VP) likely conjures up images of storied balls, parades and fairs held throughout the city. But there’s so much more to this historic, 139-year-old civic group than pageantry.

“To promote and improve St. Louis. That’s the original purpose of the VP,” stresses Troy Duncan, owner of PK Construction LLC and vice-chair of VP’s Community Service Initiative (CSI).

In 2002, the VP launched CSI as a way for the Ball’s maids of honor to give back to St. Louis and to learn about the importance of community service. CSI was originally a “dads and daughters project,” says Jim Johnson III, partner at Johnson Bender Asset Management and CSI chair. About six years ago, however, CSI’s mission began to shift and expand. No longer viewed as a niche initiative, CSI now sees entire families participating in its many service projects.

“Leadership has made community service a foremost, front-and-center part of the VP,” underscores Duncan. “New members coming in are really excited by that.” In 2017 alone, CSI completed 34 projects, benefiting 24 charities and enlisting 750 volunteers. CSI also works consistently with multiple local nonprofits, including Beyond Housing, Brightside St. Louis, Food Outreach and St. Patrick Center, among others.

In addition to these regular volunteer opportunities, CSI has also become more focused on realizing larger legacy projects that focus on children and education. This past year, VP members not only fundraised, but also helped to construct a new outdoor learning center for The Biome School, a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) public charter school in the Central West End. This project marked the second collaboration between the VP and the Royal Vagabonds, another likeminded civic organization. “We had two long-time organizations that want to see things improve in St. Louis and wanted to spend some time with each other to see what their interests, concerns and focus are,” says Johnson of the partnership. The two groups are already in the process of identifying new opportunities to work together throughout the coming year.

In addition, each committee involved in the VP Ball made a commitment to service this year.

“What we’d like to see is that community service gets embedded in everything that the VP does,” says Johnson. In the spring, the Courtier Committee organized a First Responders Appreciation Day. Through fundraising and generous donations, the committee’s members assembled and delivered over 2,000 care packages to St. Louis-area firefighters and police.

This past December, the Queen’s Supper and Traffic Committees joined forces with Mission: St. Louis on Affordable Christmas, an annual holiday pop-up shop offering gifts for sale at highly-discounted prices. Besides raising money for the event, members of both committees cooked breakfast for attendees, acted as personal shoppers and wrapped gifts.

For Johnson, the VP’s ultimate goal is to make community service an inextricable part of its DNA. “We’re all champions of St. Louis and just want to be proud of our city. You’d have to be blind not to recognize that there’s a lot of need out there,” he declares. “If the VP is going to be around for the next 140 years, it’s got to adapt and learn.

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133rd VEILED PROPHET BALL

of Love and Beauty

‌2017 VEILED PROPHET QUEEN

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2017 Special Maids of Honor

By Amanda Dahl and Alecia Humphreys

Steven T. Johnston and Special Maid Miss Katherine McKittrick Johnston

Jeffrey W. Wright and Special Maid Miss Meredith Carol Wright

David J. Thiemann and Special Maid Miss Lillian Grace Thiemann

Lawrence G. Christopher and Special Maid Miss Alice Condie Christopher

Andrew J. Condie and Special Maid Miss Mary Bridgewater Condie

Charles L. Barnes and Special Maid Miss Kathryn Danforth Barnes

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Six Special Maids were honored beside this year’s Queen of Love and Beauty.

Maids of Honor

By Amanda Dahl and Alecia Humphreys

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he 133rd annual Veiled Prophet Ball occurred on Friday, Dec. 22, at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis at The Arch, revealing the new Queen of Love and Beauty as 62 young women were presented in a ceremony to formally mark their debut into society.

An audience of more than 2,000 family and friends celebrated the crowning of Miss Corinne Marie Condie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Parker B. Condie Jr., by the Veiled Prophet. Miss Condie graduated with honors from John Burroughs School. She is currently a sophomore at Brown University majoring in health and human biology. She is a member of the Brown University varsity field hockey team.

Six special maids also received recognition: Miss Kathryn Danforth Barnes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Barnes; Miss Mary Bridgewater Condie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Condie; Miss Alice Condie Christopher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence G. Christopher; Miss Lillian Grace Thiemann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David J. Thiemann; Miss Meredith Carol Wright, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey W. Wright; and Miss Katherine McKittrick Johnston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steven T. Johnston.

PHOTOS BY SARAH CONROY AND CHRISTINA KLING-GARRETT

Miss Caroline Jeanne Niesen, Miss Margaret Patricia Sliney, Miss Geneva Lee and Miss Elizabeth Spoehrer Love

Miss Katherine Anne Laughlin and Miss Kathryn Elsa McAfee Jones

Miss Margot Hogan Cammon, Miss Megan Maley Carr and Miss Allison Stewart Zentz

Miss Lucy BoschĂŠ Gerard Reis, Miss Lucille Clara Hanaway and Miss Grace Caroline Busch

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William R. McDonnell with Miss Emily Clark McDonnell

Benjamin F. Edwards IV with Miss Hayden Gallatin Medart

William D. Rowe with Miss Katherine Keeley Spence

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Miss Alexis Adeola Olusola Adewunmi with Richard L. Nix Jr.

Stephen D. Lilly with Miss Drew Klein Bolster

Miss Mary Katherine Krausz with L. Cartan Sumner Jr.

Miss Allison Vivian Beard with Peter C. Smith

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Miss Elizabeth O’Brien Browning with Nelson H. Howe II

Miss Isabella Sofia Vescolani, Miss Paige Anne Glover and Miss Anne Hathaway Meyer

H. Meade Summers III with Miss Catherine Carr Chalfant

Miss Sophia Margaret Hibbard with Jonathan Hiemenz

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Miss Katherine Alexandra Hill with Ben R. Tischler

Miss Caroline Ilonka Watson Rank and Miss Hannah Elizabeth Fiala

David Baylis with Miss Alexandra Jean Hobler

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Richard Schneider with Miss Madison Le Chi Kreher

E.W. Gentry Sayad with Miss Lauren Alicia Whitehead

Miss Ava LeClare Sansone with James Gerard Sansone

Terry S. Dunaway with Miss Grace Elizabeth Mikula

John C. Wilson with Miss Paige Danielle Cribbin

Timothy Sant with Miss Mitzi Shaina Harris

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Miss Barrett Sloan Carlson and Miss Lauren McNeill Mullenix

John K. Handy with Miss Alexandria Marie Rizzo

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Miss Jane Savage Otto with Lawrence K. Otto

James A. Krekeler with Miss Stephanie Marie Aven

Miss Hadley Daria Parham and Miss Hannah Maria Parham

William J. Gueck with Miss Caroline Louise McLaughlin

Miss Caitlyn Mary Lochner with Timothy G. Sansone

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Miss Samantha Paige Shively with Michael T. Malloy

Miss Jenna Marie Sorensen and Miss Allison Corinne Thaman

Miss Eleanor Frances Weller with William A. Wallace

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Former Queens & Ladies of Honor

By Amanda Dahl and Alecia Humphreys

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racing the runway prior to the debut of this year’s Maids of Honor were the Former Queens and Ladies of Honor.

John P. Stupp Jr. with Former Queen Miss Laura Hogan Hollo

Mr. James L. Johnson III and 2016 Queen of Love and Beauty Miss Eliza Dooley Johnson

Former Queen Mrs. Elizabeth Elliot Niedringhaus with Andrew S. Hereford

Thomas F. George II with Former Queen Miss Josephine Condie Finney

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Former Queen Miss Julie Anne Stupp with John P. Stupp III

John P. Engman with Lady of Honor Mrs. Kip J. Bilderback

PHOTOS BY SARAH CONROY AND CHRISTINA KLING-GARRETT

Lady of Honor Mrs. Daniel C. Abel with Daniel C. Abel Jr.

Raymond J. Palmer with Lady of Honor Mrs. David R. Estes

Kevin A. Maher with Lady of Honor Mrs. Kevin A. Maher Jr.

Lady of Honor Mrs. Kenneth R. Niemann with James F. Mauze Jr.

Lady of Honor Mrs. Thomas F. Schlafly with David K. Schlafly

Thomas P. Donnelly with Lady of Honor Mrs. Kevin C. Stubbs

Lady of Honor Mrs. John M. Gillis with Timothy F. Hanser

David F. Ryan with Lady of Honor Mrs. Andrew M. Rouse

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Guests at the Gathering Story and photos by David Anderson

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uests dressed to the nines for this illustrious evening, honoring the 62 ladies being presented at the Veiled Prophet Ball. The affair launched with a cocktail party prior to the formal ceremony.

Highlights of the night included a reception for the Queen of Love and Beauty, plus her special maids, followed by dinner and dancing.

Mary von der Heydt, Jim and Anne von der Heydt

Mary Anne Mellow, Elaine Burkhardt, Laurie Wright

Jack Ciapciak, Jack Lorentzen, Courtney Mallin, Chip Niemann

David Plufka, Jeff Wright, Jim Hage, David Boudinet

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Ed and Ann Marie Mayuga

Jason and Jennifer Amato

Suzie Spence, Michael Hibbard, Megan Rowe

Mimi Carnel, Mary Carnel, Cameron Niemann, Margee Niemann

Landers Carnal, Elaine Burkhardt, Mary Ciapciak, Peggy Barnhart, Mike Newport

Trudy Buck, Bobby Ciapciak, Natalie Buck

Joe and Janet Ciapciak, Joe Sivewright

Aaron Fields, Ken Niemann, Julius Adewunmi, Shawn Merys

Ted and Kathryn Armstrong

Laurie and Evan Gatch Jasmine Huda, Peter LeBlanc Jr.

Trisha and David Schlafly, Kimmy Schlafly

Elizabeth and David Estes

David Steward II, Tom Donnelly, Dave Tochet

John and Virginia Howell

Jeana Reisinger, Lily Reisinger, Emily Koplar

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Now because of the Veiled Prophet Foundation and the Royal Vagabonds, [learning] can even happen in our play space, so we’re really excited about that.

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n a blustery Saturday in November – one that saw temperatures drop a dozen degrees in a matter of 20 minutes – a group of dedicated volunteers elected to spend their morning working outside in the rain. Why? Because the students of The Biome School in St. Louis’ Central West End neighborhood deserve a better outdoor space to play and learn.

“We used to call this the mud pit when it was wet and the dust bowl when it was dry,” says Bill Kent, president and CEO of The Biome School, referring to the patch of land next to the charter school on Olive Street. “It was pretty awful.”

“They also had these two wooden pyramids that were more like hazards out here,” adds Jim Johnson III, chair of Veiled Prophet’s Community Service Initiative. “Those were the first to go.”

The volunteers, members of Veiled Prophet and the Royal Jim Johnson iii Vagabonds and their families, had been preparing for the outdoor learning center build for months, in partnership with Edward Jones, U.S. Bank Private Client Reserve, PK Construction LLC, Forum Studios, Civil Design, Inc. and The Biome School. It’s their second such partnership, following a successful build in 2016 at Zion Child Development Center in Ferguson.

“It’s been great,” says Aaron Fields, a member of both the Royal Vagabonds and Veiled Prophet.

“Everyone arrived early this morning ready and willing. Some even brought their own shovels and rakes, and we have a great team of guys with the playground, so it just all came together. It’s fun to see the start and finish and that people got their kids involved, too, which is another big positive.”

The students who will eventually spend time on this playground number 140 this year. This is The Biome School’s third year in operation, with classes ranging from kindergarten through third grade. A 501(c)(3) charter school sponsored by the University of Missouri-St. Louis, The Biome School grew out of the Youth Learning Center, an after-school STEAM (the ubiquitous acronym for “science, technology, engineering, art and math”) enrichment program for public school students established in 2003.

“One of our goals was to create a small school in the city of St. Louis that was different from any of the schools around it,” Kent says. “So [we’re] really heavily focused on engagement with our students. The point is to make learning fun and engaging. And the kids have a lot of voice and choice in what we do here.”

Kent says The Biome School curriculum focuses on projectbased learning, weaving key subjects such as math and literacy into various programs throughout the year, like the two-week residency last year’s second-graders had at the Saint Louis Zoo. He’s excited to complete the outdoor learning center at The Biome School, which will feature a playground and a Socratic-style outdoor classroom setup, including a vertical garden and new landscaping with 1,100 plants, come spring.

“The kids didn’t have a proper place to play, which we think is a really important part of learning,” Kent says. “And we think learning happens everywhere. Now because of the Veiled Prophet Foundation and the Royal Vagabonds, it can even happen in our play space, so we’re really excited about that.”

The playground build is a nice tie-in to the Royal Vagabonds’ main philanthropic focus: awarding sizable college scholarships to inner-city youth. Fields says they provide sizable scholarships for 10 to 15 students a year.

The Veiled Prophet’s tradition of service to the St. Louis community dates back to 1878. For the past 15 years, the Veiled Prophet has redoubled its community service efforts, deploying its members and their families on dozens of projects that have had a lasting impact on St. Louis families. The Biome School outdoor learning center is just one of 28 projects the group has tackled this year. Veiled Prophet’s Community Service Initiative has contributed more than 3,000 hours with 24 different organizations in the area and boasts a roster of more than 750 active volunteers in 2017 alone. On the same Saturday as The Biome School project, another group of 100 Veiled Prophet volunteers gathered at a warehouse in Fenton, putting together care packages for Operation Sunscreen, a nonprofit that ships the packages to members of the Missouri National Guard serving overseas.

Johnson says he’s proud of Veiled Prophet’s efforts this year and the strides the organization has made in prioritizing service for the last 15 years.

“We’re adapting and changing the culture to be one about volunteering and community service first,” says Johnson. “It’s all about making St. Louis a better place to live for everyone. Whether that’s through the VP Parade, Fair St. Louis or all the things that go unseen, we really think we need to lead with community service. If we don’t take ownership, who will? We’re in a position to help, so we should.”

Volunteers erecting playground signage.

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Wow-Worthy InvItatIons

By Robyn Dexter | Photos by Sarah Conroy

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or 133 years, the Veiled Prophet has summoned its members to the annual ball with an array of colorful and intriguing invitations.

From the first bat-shaped invitation in 1878 to today’s more classically simple style, these invitations have served as an elegant formality over the years of

the organization’s service. In the first years of the ball, the invitations were in full color and were often die-cut, multifold pasteboard, printed inside and out with images representing the year’s theme. Some were contained in elaborate covers and were lithographed in Paris. Also, for the first two balls, only men received the invitations, but

after 1879, separate invitations were sent to women and men.

After the initial years, the invitations remained colorful, but were in general less elaborate. In the past few years, invitations have integrated some color and embellishments, but have overall been more formal and straightforward, like this year’s.

1878 The inaugural Veiled Prophet Ball in 1878 featured a bat-shaped invitation bearing the image of Mephistopheles, a demon featured in German folklore. The envelope shows a winged medallion of the Veiled Prophet with an upheld scroll. It opens to two triangular panels that feature the images of griffins, including the standing figure of the Veiled Prophet atop one of them.

1880 The third annual Veiled Prophet Ball invitations featured a multifold pasteboard centered on an image of the Veiled Prophet with an upheld scroll. Below him, an incense burner and two salamanders are visible.

The four surrounding folds depict scenes of seasonal activities. The envelope for 1880 shows a blue scene of the ball.

1887 The invitation was elaborate with a multifold cover that opened to a “stage,” displaying the invitation itself on the “floor.” The cover shows various Bible scenes like Abraham offering Isaac, David and Goliath, and Moses on Mount Sinai. The invitation was made to look like an ark, held together by brass eyelets and an iridescent ribbon that the recipient pulled to open it.

1902 In 1902, the Veiled Prophet Parade had a theme of “VP Visits the Lands of Louisiana Purchase.” To mirror this in the ball invitation and accompanying dance program, this round pasteboard wheel rotates to show eight scenes of the Louisiana Purchase. The invitation shows a map of the Louisiana Purchase, a wheat shaft and seals of the United States, France and the Veiled Prophet.

2014 The 2014 ball invitation to the Queen’s Supper celebrates the 250th birthday of the city of St. Louis. The invitation folds out to reveal multiple iconic St. Louis scenes, including an image of Charles Lindbergh with the Spirit of St. Louis, an image of St. Louis atop his horse, the Old Courthouse, the Arch and more. This decorated foldout invitation was more colorful than those of most of the years surrounding it, noting the milestone of the city.

2016 The 2016 invitation, though simpler than the 2014 invitation, shows the classic elegance of the organization and accompanying ball. The circular invitation depicts the crest of the Veiled Prophet and parts to reveal the information for the year’s ball, along with an image of the Veiled Prophet with his staff.

2017 This year’s invitation, like many of the recent years, is a straightforward rectangular presentation. With a capitals-and-small-caps formal font and a shield depicting the symbols of the organization, the invitation serves as a forthright formality to welcome Veiled Prophet members to this year’s festivities.

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M A I D S

By Connie Mitchell

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eing presented at the annual Veiled Prophet (VP) Ball is a big deal for every young woman who’s ever made her debut at the venerable event. However, this year’s VP Ball is the first in which some of the debutantes were among the very first class of Veiled Prophet Junior Maids in 2008.

“I remember being so excited when I found out they were doing the Junior Maid program,” reminisces Sophia Hibbard, one of the original class of Junior Maids who will be presented this year. “I had been to the VP Ball before to see my cousins walk and couldn't wait to go again as a part of this program.”

The 2008 class of Veiled Prophet Junior Maids.

The Junior Maids in question are girls in fifth grade who attend the VP Ball with their parents and meet the Veiled Prophet Organization’s officers.

Hibbard notes that the Junior Maids program helped her recognize the importance of community service, a major component of the Veiled Prophet Organization and a requirement for debutantes. Many Junior Maids go on to participate in the Veiled Prophet Community Service Initiative during their high school and early college years.

Parker Condie Jr. was the VP Ball chairman in 2008 and initiated the Junior Maids program with 30 girls, including his own daughter, who also will be presented this year. Twenty-three of this year’s debutantes were among the original class of Junior Maids. He notes that the program has grown to more than 40 Junior Maids this year and provides the girls with exposure to both the VP Ball and the community service undergirding the organization.

“We want to capture them at that moment where they really are looking for that princess environment of the VP Ball and get them excited about it,” Condie says. “Then, in the high school years, we reach out to them again to get them actively engaged in community service.” This year’s Junior Maids helped create care packages for troops through Operation Sunscreen.

“This opportunity started my community service within the VP, and it was an eye-opening experience,” says Margot Cammon, another 2008 Junior Maid and 2017 debutante. “I worked at many different sites [in high school and college], but my favorite was Girls Inc. This is a program that strives to empower girls to be strong, smart and bold, and equip them with the tools they need to overcome anything in order to succeed. This reminded me of the concept that was instilled in us as Junior Maids, and I found myself drawn to this idea of empowering young girls.”

Both Hibbard and Cammon have continued to participate in community service organizations as college students at Fort Worth’s Texas Christian University and New York’s Syracuse University, respectively. “It’s surreal that I’m walking down the runway this year and that I’m one of those girls that we stared at in awe so many years ago,” Cammon says. “I am so excited and grateful to have my Cinderella night!”

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he Veiled Prophet can easily be described as elaborate. From its posh parade to beautiful ball, details abound that make it one of a kind. However, the focus of the ball – generation after generation of local debutantes – takes “elaborate” to the next level, as these ladies are focused on bettering not only themselves but also the community and world around them.

M EREDITH W RIGHT

Meredith Wright, a graduate of Kirkwood High School, is a bbusy sophomore at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where she’s majoring in German and journalism. “I decided to attend Mizzou because of its top-rated journalism school, as well as being close to home,” she says. “I enjoy being able to come home and visit my parents, as my sister lives far fr from home in New York City.”

However, New York City is where Wright hopes to end up her erself as a successful journalist. Her emphasis in magazine writing a her university’s School of Journalism positions her to ing at work a The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine or Vogue, all rk at

publications Wright admires.

Wright volunteered for a number of organizations in high school, including the Motion for Kids Holiday Party, sponsored by the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, for thousands of children who are in foster care or who have a parent incarcerated in a Missouri prison; Food Outreach; Link Crew, a high school mentoring program that pairs upperclassmen with freshmen; and Operation Sunscreen, which sends thousands of care packages to soldiers deployed to Iraq, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Kuwait.

“I enjoy giving back to my community, especially for people in need,” she says.

K ATHERINE S PENCE

As a child, Katherine Spence would accompany her mother to Roosevelt High School in St. Louis, where they delivered birthday cakes each month. “My mom’s motto was ‘Today you were born to be who you are, and we want to celebrate you being exactly who you are because we all love you and support you,’” she says. “This stuck to me because I believe no matter where you come from, you are put on this earth for a reason.”

That early influence helped shape Spence’s future commitment to volunteering, and as a sophomore at the University of Missouri-Columbia, majoring in special education, Spence continues to make time for community service activities. She volunteers for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and also participates through her sorority, Chi Omega, in supporting Make-A-Wish.

She remembers one recent Make-A-Wish child that she helped raise money for: “We had a huge blackboard outside of Speaker’s Circle [on her university’s campus] where everyone walks to class that read, ‘Why we love Colton.’ We decided that we wanted not only Chi Omega support for Colton but the Mizzou community’s as a whole. At the end of the week, we filled the whole board with inspiring messages such as ‘Get well soon!’ and ‘Mizzou loves you, Colton.’”

After her debut, Spence is excited about spending next semester studying at City, University of London.

S ARAH F INLAY

After g er graduating from Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School, Sarah Finlay sougght a balance of academics and athletics in college. She chose Hanover, New Hampshir ampshire’s Dartmouth College, where she majors in psychology and competes on the w women’s swimming and diving team.

Swimming is more than just a sport to Finlay, whose father died from cancer when she was a freshman in high school. “I started when I was only 4 years old,” she says.

“My dad was also a swimmer in college, so I aspired to be just like him when I was younger. He would help me with my strokes and my race strategy, and when he passed a away, it was really hard for me to continue on with my career without having him by m side. However, whenever I jump in the pool now, I always think of him and know my thaat he is with me.”

Finl Finlay’s loss also influenced her volunteer work. “After having lost my dad, I feel that it’s reallyy important imp for me to give back to the cancer community and share my experiences in i easier for others, which is why I am so passionate about Camp Kesem,” a program order to make it for children who have a parent with cancer, she says.

Her passion for swimming led Finlay to the Disabled Athletes Sports Association, an organization specializing in therapeutic sports and fitness opportunities for people with disabilities. Finlay continues to teach swimming through the Dartmouth Swim School and WaterWorks program.

G RACE C OLBERT

A graduate of Parkway West High School, Grace Colbert is studying nursing at Texas Christian University (TCU) in Fort Worth.

“As soon as I stepped on TCU’s campus, I knew it was the place for me,” she says. “I love the school spirit, the athletics and the size of the school. Furthermore, they have direct-entry admission to their nursing program that I was accepted into when I applied to the school.”

Colbert volunteers with her sorority’s philanthropy, Read > Lead > Achieve, a childhood literacy program. “Once a week, we travel to a local grade school to read one-onone with students, promoting the importance of lifelong reading skills,” she says. “As an extension of Read > Lead > Achieve, I created a program where TCU students could donate gently used or unused school supplies. We raised close to $400 worth of school supplies.”

Colbert also participates in Cycling Without Age, a program she learned about through her sociology class that helps senior citizens safely cycle. Colbert enjoys chatting with the residents of a Fort Worth nursing home while safely riding a motorized bike alongside them.

“This has been especially important to me because this past summer I lost my grandma, with whom I was very close,” Colbert says.

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ne of the most exciting items to select during a bathroom remodel remains tile. It can set the tone for the rest of the room and no longer entails simple squares or rectangles – especially with so many new designs available! Consider some of the newest trends in bathroom tile capable of creating a one-of-a-kind space in your own abode: Fish-scale or mermaid tile. This tile’s shape instantly gives a bathroom an aquatic feel. The repeating organic arcs, specifically, suggest a coastal theme that adds a lot of visual interest to the space – and the typically teal color is gorgeous!

Arabesque tile. A complex, elaborate, decorative design of fantastic geometric shapes, arabesque tile should look great in any bathroom. It can be used for an accent wall or even flooring. Consider trading traditional subway tile for this style as a great alternative.

Black grout. When using a patterned tile, especially in a pattern like an arabesque or even with the ever-popular subway, choose a high-contrast grout color. This lends visual variance versus a blending of colors. It also accentuates the look of the pattern and adds an architectural design element frequently overlooked. (Plus, black hides dirt.)

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Water-jet tile. Always gorgeous, this tile typically allows for custom color choices to fit your space.

Intricate, wallpaper-inspired tiles add a touch of whimsy and class to any space. They can be used as an accent stripe down the center of a wall or even on the floor of a shower.

Hexagonal tile flooring. Yes, the classic hexagonal tile floor has staged a comeback – but think on a much grander scale, like 6-by-6 tiles or larger. These can come in a classic marble or perhaps bold pops of color to add a surprising dimension to the shower floor.

Now that you’ve toasted to coming of 2018, the time’s arrived to soak in bubbles of a different sort – in your newly retiled bathroom!

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Jake Spurgeon works as a designer with St. Louis remodeling and design firm Mosby Building Arts. A certified Associate Kitchen and Bath Designer with the National Kitchen & Bath Association, Spurgeon serves as treasurer for that organization’s Missouri/southern Illinois chapter.

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By Brittany Nay | Photos courtesy of Metro Lighting

St. Louis-based Metro Lighting still shines after 50 years of offering the latest in lumens.

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att Gagnepain believes his father would be proud of the caring customer service tradition that continues to light the way at Metro Lighting. “Fifty years later, we’re still truly a mom-and-pop business that takes care of our customers,” Gagnepain says.

Gagnepain’s dad, Charlie Gagnepain, who recently passed away, was one of Metro’s founders, along with his nephew, Jim Frisella, whose brother, Bill Frisella, owns the St. Louis-based full-service lighting company today.

The business’ story began in the late 1940s, when St. Louisans George and Nora Connelly founded Saint Louis Electrical Supply, an electric-supply delivery operation they ran out of their garage. In 1967, the company, which had become known for its mom-and-pop personal approach and speedy, reliable service, was purchased by Jim Frisella and Charlie Gagnepain, who vowed to carry on its caring customer service tradition.

The pair, along with Bill Frisella, developed the operation into the rechristened Metro Lighting full-service lighting company that St. Louisans know today. After operating as an electrical supply house

until 1978, it expanded with an electrical distributor and a small showroom. Since then, Metro has grown into eight electrical supply houses and six Missouri showrooms – in Brentwood, Chesterfield, Ballwin, O’Fallon, Arnold and Cape Girardeau.

When customers step into today’s Metro showrooms, they can expect the latest in lighting for their home’s interior and exterior. The extensive selection of traditional to modern fixtures is available in a full spectrum of sizes and finishes, from top brands such as Kichler Lighting and designer favorites like Visual Comfort and Curry and Co., as well as quality home-town Emerson ceiling fans and Swarovski’s stunning line of decorative crystal lighting. “Our Brentwood location is an award-winning lighting showroom, referred to by numerous designers as a ‘lighting museum,’” Gagnepain says.

Metro’s seasoned team attends multiple markets annually to stay current on trending styles and technology and to ensure the latest lighting is constantly on rotation in its showrooms, notes Gagnepain, who serves as general manager. “If we don’t have something in our showroom, we can have it to a customer’s house in seven to 10 business days at no additional charge,” he says, adding that its products also can be returned to any local showroom at no extra cost.

The company also has a knowledgeable and experienced sales staff available to meet one-on-one with clients. “We have inside and outside salespeople who can come to your home to discuss your project, see firsthand what you need and then set up an appointment in one of our showrooms to offer solutions we have for you,” Gagnepain says. “Our trained sales staff makes sure customers realize there are layers of lighting to every room and can say, for example, ‘This kitchen is going to take LED recessed can lights, LED under-cabinet task lights, LED in-cabinet accent lights for glass-front cabinets, as well as warm, inviting, decorative lighting over the kitchen island and dining area, and a pendant light over the sink.’”

And what makes the Metro experience truly special is its UCS (ultimate customer service) model, which employees extend to every client, Gagnepain notes. “We truly engage with each customer, we care about their project and we want to take care of them,” he says.

“Customers deserve a lighting design that they are truly happy with and are proud to share with their friends and family.”

That caring customer service model is backed by the business’ price-match guarantee. “We’re not only going to give clients that face-to-face, caring interaction with our employees, who know what they’re talking about, but we’re also going to offer the product for the same price as on the internet,” Gagnepain says, adding that Metro also extends a one-year, in-home warranty for all of its products. “If you have a light fixture that is bent or has a bad socket or a wobbly ceiling fan, we will send a technician out to replace it. We want our customers to be happy.”

Among Metro’s new offerings for 2018 is a website tool that allows clients to customize a lighting search by selecting a specific style, size and finish. “Say you’re looking for a certainsized brushed nickel, white glass pendant light – our website will show you all the light fixtures we have that meet that criteria,” Gagnepain says.

A slew of new green, high-tech lighting also is available at Metro, from energy-saving, long-lasting LED lighting in every fixture, to tech-forward features such as the ability to adjust lighting levels with a smartphone app or remote control. “We

specialize in LED light sources,” Gagnepain says. “Some newer sources have color-tuning technology because people want different lighting – maybe a vibrant white while they are working or studying and a dimmer, warmer yellow while they are relaxing or entertaining.”

As the family-friendly, full-service lighting company has done for more than 50 years, Metro can handle anything from a single lamp repair to providing every light needed for a new home-build or remodel, Gagnepain notes. “There’s no project too big or too small – and no matter how big we grow, it’s about caring for every customer,” he concludes.

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iscover the keys to your own private kingdom when you claim this elegant abode as your own. Rolling through the double gates, you’ll soon arrive under the porte cochere of the coveted “Castle of Montebello.” Only 30 minutes from the city, the property resides on a glorious 60 acres and was built by an heir to Magic Chef, who delighted in the details of the home’s design. Welcome guests through the fantastic foyer, with its sweeping circular staircase, and into the great room, well lit by a floor-to-ceiling window and limestone fireplace. Create droolworthy cuisine inside the gourmet kitchen and serve dinner in the decadent dining room. Entertain in the stunning lower level, featuring a recreation room, wood-burning fireplace, and 1,000-bottle wine cellar and tasting area. The gorgeous grounds boast a six-stall stable and walkability to Kimmswick’s restaurants. Once you retire to the master suite, with a jetted-tub-and-shower wet room, you can rest easy knowing that your dream home is incredibly real.

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Beauty Goals For 2018

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ith the start of each new year come new goals (sometimes d.b.a. aspirations or the dread resolutions). Although you may have set annual goals about health, fitness, family and hobbies, ladies, you may not have included a goal involving your beauty routine – so consider tackling one or all of these four beauty-related

goals for 2018: Go makeup-free at least once a week. Many women fall prey to thinking they need to wear makeup daily. Although some may prefer that, try to let your own skin go without cosmetics at least one day a week. Learn to feel comfortable in your own skin, which will look so much more vibrant when it can “breathe.” The dermal benefits you’ll reap from this goal should delight you – and all your admirers.

Create a skin care routine that works for you. If you already have a skin care routine that works, don’t mess with success. If you lack such a routine or if your daytime and nighttime routines need help, though, make 2018 the year to improve that, ladies! Start by finding a face wash, serum, moisturizer and sunscreen you like, and incorporate them into your daily dermal doings.

Get more sleep. Although a challenge, especially for extremely busy women, log more quality time with your pillow! Achieve this by trying to go to bed a bit earlier than usual till your body clock has reset itself. So-called beauty sleep is real – and really necessary!

Treat yourself to a facial. Every woman gets busy and sometimes forgets to take care of herself, but this year, strive amid the hourly, daily and weekly hurlyburly to make a little more “you” time! Do so by booking a facial – just because.

With luck, ladies, you can add these goals (in part or in whole) to your list this year and achieve them with ease. In 2018, resolve to better take care of yourself, your skin and the rest of your body!

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By Denise Kruse | Photo by Sarah Conroy

Boss Brows LA brings high-brow service to the St. Louis metro.

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harsh, artificial aesthetic of micro pigmentation, rest assured that microblading is quite ou don’t have to look very far to take note that eyebrows are having a unlike the brow trends of the past. “It’s different from the traditional tattoo,” Bates strong moment these days. The trend is unmistakable, much like the states, “much more natural and realistic looking – my whole thing is low-maintenance rounded, puckered-red lip of the 1920s or full and feathered eyelashes à cosmetic solutions.” la London’s swinging ’60s style scene and This look is achieved by employing fine cosmetic cultural icon Twiggy. pigments to deposit a series of hairlike strokes to fill in The look, a departure from the wafer-thin brows sparse or thinning brows. This results in a much more of the not-so-distant past, involves a fuller, more natural-looking, semipermanent brow that fits and natural clean brow with a subtle arch. For many, complements your specific features. though, this “natural” look still requires help, aided by For Boss Brows LA clients, Bates offers a free fill-in materials like brow powders, gels and pencils, consultation to begin, to introduce clients to how the which can make a low-maintenance look still feel very process works. “I clean their brows and do something demanding. For these individuals, Clayton’s Boss called brow mapping – I draw with pencil and use Brows LA, one of the St. Louis area’s first studios various rulers to measure the distance of their eyebrows to offer microblading, gives clients an opportunity and how they should frame the face using their bone to follow today’s eyebrow trend in the form of a structure,” Bates says. “I create a template so they can semipermanent tattoo. see what their eyebrow is going to look like, and approve Boss Brows LA’s owner, Kristi Bates, is a Southern it, before I actually start to work. I’m really precise with California native whose relationship brought her to the brow mapping; I want to make sure it’s even and exactly St. Louis area – and with her, the eyebrow trend that’s what the client wants. The bone structure navigates been sweeping the coasts the past few years. “In Los where the brow goes, whether it’s a high arch or low Angeles, microblading has become really big and wellarch – I give them what their bones tell me to give them known, as eyebrow trends have grown in popularity because then it looks natural. and people have learned how important it is to frame “I apply a topical numbing cream to minimize their faces properly in order to create a balance and irritation, and from there, I use a hand-held tool – with enhance natural beauty,” Bates says. She started her no electricity or vibration – that looks like an X-ACTO aesthetics career as a wax specialist at a high-end Kristi Bates applies her artistry in mapping a client's brows knife. But instead of a blade, there are several tiny Beverly Hills boutique, and after taking master classes for microblading. needles in many different shapes and sizes, depending on in microblading, Bates started Boss Brows LA a little over a year ago, running her Clayton studio as her home base while maintaining her LA what you want to create – whether slant, rounded or shading – all bunched together so I can implant the pigment in the top layers of the skin.” clientele by renting space in the area during her visits back to see family.

Bates’ needles, three times smaller than traditional tattoo needles, inject a medicalIf the thought of a tattoo on the face conjures up images of Mike Tyson or the often

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grade, organic pigment that sits on the top layer of the skin, with her choosing the shade based on the client’s skin tone and natural eyebrow color. “Most people think you have to base it on the hair color, but you want your brows to match what you already have,” Bates says, comparing the discomfort of the process to the sensation of tweezing or waxing or to a sunburn. She uses a topical numbing cream before the treatment, as noted, and a secondary topical numbing liquid during the treatment to continue the client’s comfort. The entire process takes anywhere from two to three hours, resulting in two or more years of day-to-day, low-maintenance glam eyebrows that won’t wash off with the rest of your makeup at the end of the day.

Microblading services begin at $499, reconstructing the eyebrow using strokes that mimic real hair strokes. “It looks extremely natural,” Bates says. Additionally, Bates’ specialized techniques set her apart in the industry – Ombre Boss Brows, which also begins at $499, is Bates’ shading service “for someone who has brows but [who] really wants to define them because they’re sparse, they fill them in with powder or pencil or brow gel.”

Ombre Boss Brows service creates the shape by filling brows in with pigmentation shading directly onto the client’s skin. “It’s buildable; it can be dramatic or natural, depending on what the client’s needs are,” Bates says.

Blade + Shade Boss Brows is Bates’ most popular service, at $550, providing a combination of microblading and ombre to achieve a true 3-D effect. “It’s my technique I use to create the most natural-looking eyebrow that is defined, gives you the reconstruction with the strokes and adds the shading to create a 3-D effect to really make it look realistic and natural,” she says.

“About 90 percent of people do the Blade + Shade combo brow, but there are people who just want strokes to fill in some sparse areas or just want the shading or ombre so they don’t have to wear makeup,” Bates continues. All brow services include a touch-up appointment at the eight-week post-application mark, to ensure both Bates and her client remain happy with the result, and $275 color-boost appointments, what Bates calls a “revamp” to make the pigment more vibrant a year or two down the road – as the result does fade like normal tattoos, and oily skin won’t keep the pigment as long.

Boss Brows LA offers additional services, such as beauty mark enhancements and waxing. Bates also provides training services for local existing beauty professionals who would like to expand their repertoire by offering microblading at their own studios and salons. “It’s a specialized craft – I really wanted to open a studio that focused on doing the actual art,” Bates says. “I do training in the art of microblading every other month; I think that has really helped expand the knowledge of the art.”

The most rewarding part of her work, according to Bates, involves clients’ reactions. “I get text messages from men and women saying, ‘Wow, I can’t believe how different I look; I feel so good and don’t have to do my makeup,’” Bates says. “I’ve teared up at some of the reviews and text messages of gratitude from my clients – it’s something I’m really grateful for.”

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Launched in 2011, Ditto is an upscale resale boutique whose proceeds support

Family-owned since 1951, Laurie’s Shoes is synonymous with superior quality,

tuition-remission programs in eight area Christian schools. With its eclectic

selection and service. Visit any of its three locations or sister store, Birkenstock

selection of new and gently-used merchandise, Ditto is your one-stop shop for

& More, and find the perfect combination of fashion and fit. With help from the

affordable fashions and furnishings. Stop by Ditto and you’ll find quality pieces –

friendly and knowledgeable shoe specialists, you’ll leave with an extra pep in

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GAME ON! SO, WHAT ARE YOU DOING THIS SUMMER?

Six Notes for

JANUARY

By Frank Cusumano

‌Here are half a dozen things on my mind this month:

1.

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I believe the Cardinals hit a home run with the Marcell Ozuna trade.

The Cardinals gave up four guys who have never done anything in the Major Leagues for one of the most prolific hitters in baseball. Only two players in all of baseball have more than Ozuna’s 124 RBIs, and only one left fielder has a higher on-base plus slugging (OPS). We’re talking about a 27-year-old who has started back-to-back All-Star Games and won a Gold Glove last season. Did I mention that he also happens to be incredible in the clubhouse and great with the media? And the Cardinals picked up this player without having to give up a top five prospect! Well done.

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I’m not sure anybody anticipated what ended up happening with Mizzou football. I’ll be honest. I was thinking that it was time to put that shortlist together for potential coaches. Instead, football coach Barry Odom got a two-year contract extension. He’s done a great job, but I disagree with the extension. He had years left on the deal. Let him do it for another season. Let him have back-to-back winning seasons and reward him. Colleges should rethink giving coaches extensive contracts only to fire the coach and hand out buyouts exceeding $10 million.

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High school basketball has drastically changed. Webster Groves went to play Memphis East, which has two players who needed court injunctions to play.

They transferred in for that season. What a joke! Whatever happened to going to the actual school where your family actually lives within the district? Or if you go to a private school, staying at that school for four years and not transferring out because another school has a famous coach. It’s all about scholarships! You can get one if you work hard and have ability.

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The sports personality of the year in St. Louis should be Tommy Pham.

Just think about everything he had to overcome: an incredible history of injuries, not making the Major League roster out of spring training and the chronic eye issues. He was the MVP of the Cardinals. He became a 20-20 guy. He hit 306 with a 411 on-base average and a 931 OPS. He put together one of the best seasons in all of baseball. Plus, he saw things in the clubhouse he didn’t like. He wasn’t impressed with the work ethic of some of his teammates and let it be known. I want him to have a lengthy career. We need guys like this to thrive, guys who wake up every day and try to get better. Go, Tommy!

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The Blues are in the position right now to make that one sexy trade at deadline to put them over the top. They don’t always do it. Sometimes it doesn’t matter what you do at the deadline; you’re simply not good enough. The Blues are good enough. They’re going to need a goal scorer and a top-six forward at the deadline.

It’s kind of like a really tasty piece of cake – it doesn’t have to have the warm caramel sauce, but it helps. This is it. The year to end the 51-year drought.

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Finally, things I really appreciate in my life: KSDK, KFNS, 97.1, Saturday nights with the lovely Monique, every moment I have watching the kids play something, incredible doctors like Rick Lehman and Kevin Rutz, fantasy football, Greentree Community Church, a really good red sauce, documentaries, a great sermon or interview on a podcast, tune-in radio, Lexa on Apple music and the great producers I work with on radio and television – Rachel, Brian, Chris, Andy and Larry.

With their help, I can at least be OK on the air.

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Frank Cusumano is a 17-time Emmy Award-winner on KSDK-TV; he also hosts The Pressbox on The All New 590 the Fan from 10 a.m. to noon each weekday and contributes to The Dave Glover Show on FM NewsTalk 97.1. Follow him on Twitter @frank_cusumano.

KIDS MD

Successful Sharing

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lthough a time for celebration, compassion and giving, the holidays, unfortunately, also can involve issues of ownership and possession, especially for children in the “terrible 2s” or thereabouts.

At the age of 2 or even 3, toddlers start to see themselves as individuals. They understand that I and we are how they identify themselves. Despite the importance of learning such pronouns, though, doing so has a downside; specifically, a child’s favorite word may become mine. This ranks as a normal stage of development, however, and although you shouldn’t interfere with such self-differentiation, you can take steps to teach your child or children how to share.

Consider, for instance, these four suggestions: ‌Help your toddler to share by always being a good role model. (Being a role model, this column’s regular readers may have noted, remains a pretty consistent theme in raising children.) ‌Share your own possessions, but most important, share your time and attention.

By Dr. Joseph Kahn

‌Reassure your child where warranted. Recognize his or her feelings. He or she may truly fear never getting a shared toy returned, for instance. ‌Talk about taking turns, and make sure your child has plenty of toys. That way, when the opportunity to share presents itself, there’s more to share and less to own. Also, make certain your child isn’t always forced to share; sharing should become a welcome choice rather than an unwanted obligation.

As your child grows and nears school age, consider this trio of additional suggestions: ‌Teach negotiation tactics: “I’d like my turn.” “You can be next.” ‌Teach that sharing encourages friendship and fun. ‌Model and reinforce good sharing behavior, and allow children to work things out when they’re able.

So – sharing, in a nutshell. Imagine where we as a society would be today if some of our leaders had learned to work things out together as children!

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Dr. Joseph Kahn is president of Mercy Kids (mercykids.org), an expansive network of pediatric care dedicated to meeting the needs of every child, every day.

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Telling St. Louis

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Nine Network’s senior director was recently recognized for his nearly three-decade career by the St. Louis Media Hall of Fame.

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im Kirchherr didn’t always want to work in media. In fact, when he was at the University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign, he was studying history with plans to be a social studies teacher. But the now-senior director of content at Nine Network made a “spur of the moment” decision to switch to broadcast. “It was never something I was dreaming about,” he says. “I’ve just always been good with words.”

His way with words didn’t lead him astray. Kirchherr went on to have a successful career in media, including 27 years with St. Louis’ Nine Network. At the end of November, Kirchherr learned he would be inducted into the 2018 class of the Media Hall of Fame for his work with the local public television station on countless broadcasts, digital content, documentaries, public affairs specials and more. He’s won 26 regional Emmy awards, most recently for his work on a program about a Washington University in St. Louis laboratory that was studying the abilities of swarms of cyborg locusts to use their antennae to sniff out explosives. “[The Hall of Fame induction] is a recognition of a very steady output of really good work,” he says. “When you work in public TV, people appreciate that, but you often don’t get a lot of recognition. This is kind of nice.”

When asked about memorable career highlights and milestones, Kirchherr harks back to his first TV job, which showed him he was in fact cut out for the career ahead. It was Dec. 13, 1977, and a plane carrying the University of Evansville Aces basketball team crashed on takeoff, killing all 29 passengers.

“That was the first national story I covered, and it was important to me because I realized how well I could work under pressure and try to organize a newscast on short notice,” he says. “It was an important revelation for a terrible story.”

Kirchherr has been at Nine Network since 1991 and Publicity photo for Decades—1900-2000, a Nine Network has worked on numerous projects he calls to mind as production about the history of the St. Louis region during memorable. At the turn of the century, he produced a the 20th century. | Photo supplied nine-part history series called Decades: St. Louis in the 20th Century, which he notes he is particularly proud of. Kirchherr also notes Homeland: Immigration in America as another career highlight – Kirchherr served as a producer and writer on the three-hour documentary series that explored America’s immigrant experience and aired nationally during the 2012 election.

Although he grew up in Chicago and moved to St. Louis in 1978, Kirchherr says his “outsider” lens gives him a new view of the city that born-and-raised residents don’t have.

“Not being born and raised here gives you a different perspective because you tend to notice things that people who grew up here don’t notice,” he says. “Almost anything I notice on the street that catches my eye is something I’m curious about and want to know what the story is.”

This curiosity often leads to stories that unveil parts of St. Louis residents would’ve never otherwise known.

“My favorite thing to hear from people after they’ve seen something I’ve done is ‘I’ve lived here all my life, and I never knew that,’” Kirchherr says.

Although sometimes they’re not “earthshaking” things, Kirchherr says this fresh perspective has led him to do things like climb the inside of the Union Station clock tower.

“I’ve driven by that a million times,” he says. “One day I wondered if they’d let me climb it. It took some negotiating, but we took a camera and did it.”

Kirchherr calls St. Louis a well-kept secret in many aspects and summons a quote from writer Theodore Dreiser to describe how he feels about the city. “I learned in time to like it very much, but for the things that set it apart from other cities, not for the things by which it sought to rival them,” the quote goes.

“I think that’s both praiseworthy and somewhat indicative of St. Louis not tooting its horn as much as it should,” he says. “St. Louis could really play to its strengths.”

In his work with the Nine Network, Kirchherr has been able to dig into St. Louis’ strengths and weaknesses alike. He says the most gratifying part of his job is the ability to find and tell stories across the region in a way that’s comprehensive and thoughtful.

“It’s given me the opportunity to do research, to dig into the past, to cover current issues … and do it all well,” he says. “With public television, we have the airtime to do these stories well.”

Where other networks might have only a minute to tell a particular story, public television allows producers like Kirchherr the airtime to delve deep into their topics and really tell the story.

“The challenge for public TV is always funding,” he says. “Changing technologies can be viewed as an obstacle or an opportunity. I think if Nine Network remains a valuable resource, the quality of content is always going to be a top priority, not necessarily the tools.”

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Sister Cities Cajun

By Mabel Suen

ups at the now defunct Melt kept the couple’s vision alive while they worked on finding a new location for their passion project.

When the 2,500 square feet or so that previously housed The Brick became available, Melton and Parfait started transitioning the building into an ideal live-work situation. The dining room features exposed original handmade brickwork, rustic reclaimed wood features, seafoam-blue highlights and abundant natural light.

“It’s so earthy here, with a homey feel that goes right in with comforting food and our whole M.O.,” says Parfait, who plans to make the spacious back patio as dog-friendly as possible.

In the kitchen, Parfait cooks plenty of favorites

from Sister Cities Cajun’s previously established menu, including staples such as Cajun smoked wings, seafood gumbo and chicken-and-sausage jambalaya.

Menu additions include offerings developed while serving food temporarily on Cherokee Street – tacos.

Guests can choose from options like spicy shrimp or smoked chicken, as well as blackened zucchini or fish with Cajun slaw, rémoulade, and corn and poblano salsa.

Additional highlights include barbecue cochon, shrimp and grits, Creole pasta, a Cuban sandwich and house nachos with hand-sliced chips, chicken, pork, red beans, cheese, peperoncini and Cajun garlic dressing.

“We’re also working on a little more dietary inclusion, with more vegetarian options,” Parfait says.

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ister Cities Cajun (named in hommage to the parallels in French heritage between St. Louis and New Orleans) occupies St. Louis’ Marine Villa neighborhood and features a menu and bar blending classical French, traditional Cajun and modern American cuisine.

The restaurant boasts a rather storied, if not downright peculiar, history. It first opened in St. Louis’ Dutchtown neighborhood (at 4144 S. Grand) in 2013, but closed when a car smashed through its window in January 2016.

A reopening followed – as, improbably, did a second car, which rammed its front the following March.

That understandably made co-owners Pamela Melton and Travis Parfait choose to move. A few pop-

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“Everything is whole and unprocessed – no MSG, partially hydrogenated oils or high-fructose corn syrup. We even started making our own ketchup for barbecue sauce.”

From the full bar, incidentally, guests can choose from a short list of specialty cocktails, including seasonal sangria, bloody marys and a Green Goddess cooler with green tea, cucumber simple syrup, lime, gin and fresh mint.

Otherwise, Sister Cities Cajun plans to start serving breakfast fare (following the reported rollout of brunch offerings last November).

“We pride ourselves in serving country Cajun food,” Parfait says. “I’m from south of New Orleans.

New Orleans tends to serve a lot of tourist food, so I like to bring in some down-home bayou Cajun.

It’s rustic, authentic comfort food.”

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Sister Cities Cajun, 3550 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-405-0447, sistercitiescajun.com

Holiday celebrations have concluded, kids have returned to school and the workaday world spins again – alas! Not all the good times have rolled, though. With the new year comes a slate of shows set to premiere in the next few months, among them the following: The Fabulous Fox Theatre opens a two-week School of Rock touring production on Jan. 16. The musical based on the eponymous 2003 movie blends songs from the movie with a score by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics

by Glenn Slater and a book by Julian Fellowes. After his band ditches him, a rock guitarist poses as a substitute teacher for a fifth-grade class, challenging both the kids and their prim headmistress.

Weekend runs of The Sound of Music (Feb. 2 to 4), The Wizard of Oz (Feb. 23 to 25) and Chicago (March 2 to 4) dot the calendar before The Color Purple returns from March 20 to April 1. Following it is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning smash, Hamilton, which opens April 3 and continues through April 22.

On its Mainstage from Jan. 3 to 28, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis opens its season with The Marvelous Wonderettes, a paean to pop tunes from the 1950s and ’60s set at a high school prom and a 10-year high school reunion. Downstairs, on Jan. 17, the Studio Theatre opens with Faceless, a drama about a young female terrorist on trial and the Harvard-educated Muslim attorney prosecuting her.

The 2016 Tony-winning Best Play, The Humans, runs next from The Rep, from Feb. 7 to March 4, and centers on three generations of a family gathered for Thanksgiving in a New York City apartment. From March 14 to April 8, the Garson Kanin classic comedy Born Yesterday concludes the Mainstage season. Caught, a drama with a multilayered plot and an ever-changing set of rules, closes The Studio season from March 7 to 25. The Rep then presents its annual Ignite! Festival of New Plays from March 28 to April 7.

Peabody Opera House greets a touring production of the smash Broadway musical Kinky Boots on Jan. 13 and 14, followed by Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story on Feb. 9 and 10 and the Broadway musical comedy sensation A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder on March 9.

New Line Theatre goes to the undead with its Jan. 8 public reading at The Marcelle of a “new/old” musical titled The Zombies of Penzance – supposedly, according to a New Line news release, a long-lost first draft of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance. Uh-huh. The troupe continues its 2017-18 season with Cole Porter’s masterpiece, Anything Goes, from March 1 to 24.

The St. Louis Black Repertory – now on its second journey through August Wilson’s epic Pittsburgh Cycle, 10 dramas singularly set in Pittsburgh in differing decades of the 20th century, reflecting the AfricanAmerican experience – presents Fences from Jan. 3 to 21. Set in the 1950s, Fences (at the Edison Theatre of Washington University in St. Louis) focuses on a former Negro Leagues baseball player embittered by Major

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League Baseball’s “color barrier,” which quelled his chance at stardom.

Winter Opera Saint Louis continues its 2017-18 season with Bizet’s Les Pecheurs de Perles (The Pearl Fishers) on Jan. 26 and 28, followed on March 9 and 11

by Donizetti’s comic opera L’Elisir d’Amore (The Elixir of Love) – both at the Skip Viragh Center for the Arts at Chaminade College Preparatory.

Metro Theater Company’s 45th season continues with Bud, Not Buddy from Feb. 3 to 25 at The Grandel.

In this “concert play,” produced with Jazz St. Louis and featuring a 13-piece jazz band, a 10-year-old orphan tries to find his father during the Great Depression.

The How and the Why focuses on the difficult choices faced by women of every generation; the drama concerns an intellectual battle between an established leader in evolutionary biology and a graduate student half her age, and runs from Jan. 24 to Feb. 11 from The New Jewish Theatre.

Charles Busch wrote the “radical comedy” Red Scare on Sunset, which Stray Dog Theatre stages from Feb. 8 to 24 at Tower Grove Abbey; in it, a woman takes action when her husband unwittingly joins the Communist Party in Hollywood at the height of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy’s early-1950s obsession with tracking communist sympathizers.

Upstream Theater artistic director Philip Boehm has translated Albert Ostrmaier’s Infected, a German play whose American debut Boehm’s troupe celebrates at the Kranzberg Arts Center from Feb. 9 to 25.

Newcomers claiming to see angels threaten the tranquility of women in an 1830s Shaker community in Arlene Hutton’s As It Is in Heaven. Mustard Seed Theatre presents the drama from March 15 to 31 at the Fontbonne University Fine Arts Theater.

St. Louis Actors’ Studio continues its season from Feb. 9 to 25 at the Gaslight Theater with the provocative, arresting drama Blackbird by playwright David Harrower; in it, a 56-year-old man is tracked down by a 27-year-old woman – 15 years after their relationship.

A woman yearning to be an astronomer but barred from doing so because of her sex takes the spotlight in Silent Sky, which dramatizes the true story of Henrietta Swan Leavitt and female “computers” in the late 19th century. West End Players Guild stages the drama from Feb. 9 to 18.

The perennially popular Menopause the Musical returns to the Playhouse @ Westport Plaza for an extended run from Jan. 9 to March 31. Finally, Tesseract Theatre Company presents a new play by Ben Jolivet titled Cold, concerning the tension between two women over an experimental surgery that could save their daughter; it takes the stage in February at the .ZACK. So – the holidays were fun and relaxing, yes. Now, though, the time has come to exercise those mental muscles with a visit or three to your favorite local theater. Curtain’s up!

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Around Town

By Jackson Roman

Mon., Jan. 8

The headquarters of the St. Louis County Library welcomes best-selling crime fictioneer ROBERT CRAIS at Left Bank Books. Crais discusses his new novel, The Wanted, a story about two detectives investigating “the deadliest case of their lives,” a troubled teenager inadvertently caught up in the high-stakes world of organized crime. 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. left-bank.com.

Thu., Jan. 11

The International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum hosts a screening of JERRY & MAGGIE: THIS IS NOT PHOTOGRAPHY. The acclaimed 2012 documentary tells the story of fine art photographers Jerry Uelsmann and his wife, Maggie Taylor, focusing on their parallel careers as controversial, high-concept artists. Doors 6:30 p.m., film begins at 7. $3 for members of the organization, $5 for nonmembers. iphf.org.

Thu., Jan. 11, to Sun., Jan. 14

JPEK CreativeWorks Theatre presents THE MEETING at the .ZACK. The Meeting details a supposed meeting between notable civil rights figures the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, and highlights debate about the disparity between their methods and approaches toward addressing the same social issues. Times vary per day. $20. kranzbergartsfoundation.org/zack.

Thu., Jan. 11

The headquarters of the St. Louis County Library welcomes former Delta Force officer and New York Times best-selling author BRAD TAYLOR, who discusses his new novel, Operator Down, at Left Bank Books. The latest in Taylor’s popular Pike Logan series, Operator Down tells the story of a counterterrorism operator whose investigation of an African military coup finds him in over his head. 7 p.m.

Free and open to the public. left-bank.com.

Sat., Jan. 13, to Sun., Jan 14

St. Louisans are invited to the 13th annual LOOP ICE CARNIVAL. Take part in two days’ worth of winter fun and festivities on one of the most historic streets in the metro area. Try your hand at activities including the Putt-Putt Pub Crawl, the Temporary Tattoo Scavenger Hunt or the $1,000 in Ice Cubes Giveaway, as well as many more. Soar through the skies on Zip Flyte, the world’s longest, tallest mobile zip line, or take to the street and stop at any of the Loop’s establishments. Times vary per day. Overall event is free and open to the public (prices vary on some subevents/attractions). visittheloop.com.

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Sat., Jan. 13

Join Schlafly and friends in beating those winter blues with CABIN FEVER 2018 at Schlafly Bottleworks. Sample from at least 40 Schlafly beer varieties, enjoy live music from Sean Canan’s Voodoo Players, accompany those brews with food, and otherwise have fun. Noon to 4 p.m. $30 in advance, $35 on the day of the event. schlafly.com.

Sat., Jan. 13, to Sun., Jan. 14

Circus Harmony presents LEGATO at the City Museum. An amazing, awe-inspiring look at circus through the decades from 1920 to 2010, Legato features 10 circus acts accompanied by The Circus Harmony Band directed by Adam Rugo. Legato also plays Jan. 20 and 21. Showtimes vary. $20. circusharmony.org.

Soul ANDY LEICHT

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n an era during which far too many people are talking globally but far too few are genuinely thinking that way, St. Louisan Andy Leicht’s Earth 2.01 comes as a small comfort.

That oil on canvas focuses on a circle divided into irregular segments of light gray, equally light pink, midrange cyan-blue and, most prominently, old gold, with one matte black straggler. Circling the larger circle and sometimes, because of variations in size, seemingly hovering above it are nine ellipses that recall nothing so much as Kalamatas, oddly enough; in harmony with the painting’s title, those pseudo-olives look rather like satellites.

Of that 60- by 50-inch work created last year, Leicht relates, “This painting, Earth 2.01, is the first in a series of 10 large oil paintings that represents my idea of other ‘earthlike’ planets, as well as a reflection of our own planet.”

Unapologetically abstract, Leicht’s painting likely will prompt a number of beetled brows among viewers more

By Bryan A. Hollerbach | Image courtesy of Andy Leicht

inclined to embrace representational art. At the same time, though, it should by rights demand a measure of self-inquiry about aesthetic precepts and prejudices, particularly in light of the fact that precious little, at base, separates the abstract nature of Earth 2.01 from the über-representational impact of The Blue Marble, the historic photograph of our own Earth 1.01 shot on December 7, 1972, by the Apollo 17 crew from roughly 18,000 miles above the planetary surface.

Leicht provides few details about himself or his artistic background and career. Appropriately enough in context, however, he does admit to having taken part in the national juried exhibition “What’s Your GPS?,” which ran for roughly a month last September and October at the St. Louis Artists’ Guild & Galleries in Clayton.

At the moment, Leicht’s WordPress blog displays two more paintings in the series to which Earth 2.01 belongs, along with other intriguing works, most of them similarly and chromatically restrained.

“Throughout my career as a painter, I have

consistently experimented with ideas, creating series of paintings that span over the years and, in some cases, decades,” Leicht states on his blog.

“From my dozens of portraits inspired by obituary photographs selected from newspapers to the narrative Lifeboat series, I demonstrate the ability to work through aspects of an idea and then pick up on it again and rework it. The original idea then becomes an ongoing cycle of a painting series.

“Each series is explored, set aside, and explored and worked again. My commitment is to this creative process: trying to achieve a perfection in my art that inherently must be imperfect to reach its gestalt.”

To learn more about our featured artist, visit andyleicht.wordpress.com.

St. Louis-area artists who wish to be considered for future installments of this monthly department of Ladue News should email inquiries to bhollerbach@laduenews.com with “Art and Soul” in the subject line.

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The longstanding local troupe Dances of India seeks to both entertain and to enlighten.

“I

was born in St. Louis and grew up here in the 1970s and ’80s,” Nartana Premachandra says. “People had no idea of India back then. If you said you were Indian, people would respond, ‘Really? I’m a quarter-Cherokee!’”

The gentle insightfulness of that reminiscence reflects the wit – in more than one sense of that word – of Premachandra, who serves as president of Dances of India. Now in its 41st year, that local terpsichorean troupe staged one of its few but precious marquee performances in mid-November, with the next such performance not scheduled until the second week of spring.

Dr. B.N. and Asha Premachandra, her parents, established Dances of India in 1976. Her mother, a distinguished local teacher of dance, still serves as artistic director, teaching classical Indian dance to all the company’s students. For some time, meanwhile, her father oversaw the troupe as its president until his unexpected death three years ago, at which time Premachandra succeeded him.

Premachandra amusingly continues her reminiscence about how the perception of Indians in America has changed in the past few decades – and how Dances of India has sought to affect that perception.

“Now, people have different ideas,” she says. “For example, I must be a doctor. I’m not – I’m a writer and dancer! Or we must perform Bollywood. In other words, people had no idea of India before, and now they do, but much of it is stereotyped. We like to break down stereotypes. We do so by respecting the rules of classical Indian dance while always striving to make it accessible to contemporary audiences. That’s the only way art can really be alive.”

Premachandra mentions loving “different styles of dance,” citing one production that included “a ballet dancer, tap dancer, contemporary dancer and flamenco dancer,” as well as prior collaborations with Gen Horiuchi’s Saint Louis Ballet. “It’s magical to watch different styles of art next to one another and perceive similarities as well as differences between them,” she says.

For the benefit of those who know nothing of her troupe’s specialty, Premachandra provides a handy précis, focusing first on form.

“Classical Indian dance – and I am referring to classical, not Bollywood – uses the entire body and the entire range of one’s thought and feeling,” she says. “The harmony of body and mind is paramount. In that respect, it’s considered a yoga. There are myriad movements of feet, hands, eyes and poses of the body. It’s a very rhythmic dance, very melodic and, at the same time, deeply emotional.

“The one aspect of classical Indian dance that sets it apart from every other classical dance style in the world is the range of expression involved in the dance – expression of eyes, eyebrows, hands, body itself – as it was created over 2,000 years ago primarily as a vehicle for storytelling.”

In addition, Premachandra briefly dwells on the potential content of her troupe’s performances.

“Traditionally, of course, the range of stories described in classical Indian dance were from Hindu myth, history and folklore, but the dance is very adaptable to tell many tales, to perform alongside many kinds of music,” she relates, citing one prior conflation of the pantheistic deities of Hinduism and famed 20th-century American composer George Gershwin.Those knowledgeable of Indian dance to one degree or another may well wonder precisely how Dances of India positions its artistry in the context of Indian terpsichorean tradition. “We do focus on bharata natyam, but we have also taught some kuchipudi, another style from south India, and folk,” Premachandra says. “There’s a huge variety of folk dances in India, and our dance productions are very inventive.”

Almost necessarily, Premachandra reflects on the challenges of the troupe’s presidency since her father’s death.

“Fortunately, I used to help my dad write grants for various arts organizations, so the process wasn’t entirely unfamiliar to me,” she says. “If I hadn’t helped him, I would’ve been lost. I would say one of the main challenges has been simply the fact that I handle both the creative and administrative sides – I switch back and forth from each side of the brain constantly in the run-up to the show, and that can be a little exhausting! In addition to dealing with the logistics of setting up the show, I also dance and write/narrate our original productions.”

Regarding potential modifications to Dances of India during the next five years or so, Premachandra sounds a note common to many area arts organizations.“The only major change I can see is to reach out to more of the St. Louis community,” she says. “This past November, we had our largest – and most diverse – audience ever, which was a joy. We’d like even more people to come and join us! We do lots of – NartaNa PremachaNdra performances around town during the year – such as at the Saint Louis Art Museum, schools, libraries, assisted living centers, universities, corporations and so forth.”

Dances of India’s 19th annual St. Louis Dance Festival (an event founded in 2000 by Premachandra’s father and now presented along with Dimensions Dance Center and Beyond Motion Productions) will take place next March 31, with the troupe’s 41st annual performance following in November 2018. For details, she directs interested parties to the troupe’s website.

“It gives us great joy to share the beauty, colors and music of this art with the community and [the] world at large,” Premachandra concludes.

There’s a huge variety of folk dances in India, and our dance productions are very inventive.

Dances of India, Dimensions Dance Center, 1201 N. Warson Road, Olivette, 314-997-0911, dancesofindiastlouis.org

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