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To Our Loyal Customers, I have proudly called St. Louis my home for more than 22 years. I have raised a family, built a life and made lasting friendships here. I have also owned and managed Pink Magnolia, a small, family-owned and -operated business under the Lilly Pulitzer Signature Store umbrella, and am honored to have been a part of this community since the store’s opening in February 2007.

I am writing to you today to thank you for shopping with us for over a decade and to ask that you continue to support our small business.

As you may have heard, Lilly Pulitzer will be opening a corporate retail store at Plaza Frontenac in August. What you may not know, though, is that because we are independently owned and operated, we rely on you, our amazing customers, old and new, to keep us in business.

What you also may not know are the amazing things that set us apart: • Pink Magnolia carries 100 percent Lilly Pulitzer women’s apparel, which is the standard for a Lilly Pulitzer Signature Store. We order almost every style that Lilly Pulitzer offers each season, including the accessories, gifts and girls’ apparel you love.

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fulfilling experience – not only because it could add light and inspiration to someone’s day but also because it recognizes individuals who are truly making a difference in the world. I like to believe that every story shared in Ladue News is inspiring in its own way, and this week, there are two stories that especially leave me with that feeling of fulfillment.

In this week’s Arts & Culture section, LN contributing writer Denise Kruse speaks with Sreelatha Varma – a woman with many titles, including assistant professor at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, clinic director at SLUCare Internal Medicine at Des Peres and artist. Starting on p.

54, Varma shares the inspiration for her work – a truly touching story – and why she chooses to donate the proceeds from her work to benefit people in need.

Speaking of helping those in need, check out this week’s feature in The Daily, which shares the story of Birthday Joy. Created in 2012, Birthday Joy is a nonprofit in St. Louis that makes sure every child has the opportunity to be celebrated on his or her special day. Shared by LN contributing writer Connie Mitchell on p. 47, we hope this bubbly story brightens your day and possibly also inspires you to contribute to such a worthy cause.

All the best,

Alecia Humphreys

The word around town

Congratulations to Claire Zickel, a Kirkwood High School freshman, for receiving a silver medal in the 2017 Scholastic Art and Writing National Awards. The awards are “the nation’s longest-running and most prestigious recognition program for creative teens in grades seven through 12.” Zickel qualified for the competition after her work was selected from more than 1,000 submissions from students throughout Missouri as a statelevel Gold Key Winner.

The Kids Shouldn’t Have Cancer Foundation board presenting its donation to the St. Louis Children’s Hospital Foundation.

A huge shoutout to the Kids Shouldn’t Have Cancer Foundation in Memory of Jonny Wade for donating $75,000 to the St. Louis Children’s Hospital Foundation. The Kids Shouldn’t Have Cancer Foundation was founded in memory of 8-year-old Jonny Wade shortly after his passing. The donation will support research in the “first-ever clinical trial to treat pediatric patients with recurring or relapsing brain tumors with peptide vaccine, a personalized vaccine developed by targeting genetic abnormalities in each individual tumor.”

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The

Healing Powers

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By Amanda Dahl | Photos by Sarah Conroy

Dr. John DiPersio spends quality time with T.J., the honored hero and 2017 Boy of the Year.

C

ancer is too common. Many know how it changes everything in an instant. This year’s candidates for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) ultimate fundraiser can attest to the irreparable damage that word can cause, having experienced its traumatic effect either secondhand or firsthand. LLS works tirelessly to erase that word from our everyday vocabulary by attaching a message of hope to it.

“Targeted therapies for some [blood cancers] are now a reality,” Dr. John DiPersio, chief oncologist at Washington University and deputy director of Siteman Cancer Center, says. “We are making progress, but we need everyone’s help. With some of the tools we now have, we can start thinking outside of the box. LLS is an important society providing instruments to our patients through novel research approaches and day-to-day needs.” DiPersio is a recipient of this year’s LLS Legacy Leadership Award for his numerous contributions.

Mary Pillsbury Wainwright also will receive this honor, and she is humbled by the organization’s acknowledgment. “When my husband died of AML [acute myeloid leukemia], I dedicated [myself] to finding a cure for leukemia and other cancers,” she shares. “I started the William Edward Heitz Memorial Research Fund and founded the Diamond Ball, which raised millions over 25 years. My greatest reward came in 2014, when I helped get the oral chemo parity bill passed, which impacted 35,000 cancer patients in Missouri. Now, I am going with other LLS leaders in May to Washington, D.C., to work on a national bill.”

Their contributions, and those of many others, are changing the medical landscape for children today. Anne, mother of the 2017 Girl of the Year, talks about the terror of learning one’s child has been diagnosed with cancer. “Life can get really ugly. Our world turned upside down. However, because of the dedication of our doctors, nurses and staff, combined with the love and support from LLS, friends, family and other organizations, Lily is thriving. Our family has been lifted up by these people,” she shares. “Any small gesture of kindness and support goes a really long way. Without people bringing food, sending gift cards and prayers, and coming to the hospital to give me a physical break, we never would be where we are today.”

Anne names LLS as a pillar of strength. “I have a new appreciation for fundraising and how essential it is for any kind of success against cancer,” she says. “I never realized cancer came in so many types – each one insidious. There is still much that needs to be discovered to ensure each child goes home to live a happy and full life.”

Becky, mother of the 2017 Boy of the Year, talks about discovering T.J.’s diagnosis shortly after his fifth birthday. “It was earth-shattering,” she says. “We never expected to hear leukemia. His oncologist said it’s curable. T.J. started

Lily, 2017 Girl of the Year, gives Colton, the Team in Training’s honored hero, a big hug.

chemo the very next day and has been going through it since October. We tell T.J. the truth and explain everything to him. He’s smart and handling things well.

We’re hoping he can continue like that. He starts kindergarten in the fall and is a happy child. We try to keep things as normal as possible for him.”

Becky found tremendous support through LLS. “Anyone can get through anything if they have hope. You can find strength within yourself. For me, that strength is found in my son when I look at him,” she shares. “LLS, to us, is hope. You don’t understand [right away] when it happens to you, but you become part of a community that doesn’t want this to happen to anyone else. You look in your child’s eyes and see the future.

You want the best for them – and LLS gives them that.” Come see who is crowned Man, Woman & Student of the Year on May 5th, 2017 at The Chase Park Plaza Hotel.

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MELISSA MARR

590 THE FAN & INSIDESTL.COM “I knew someone very special who unfortunately lost his fight against AML. A dear friend [recently] received a non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma diagnosis on her 30th birthday.

I’m more motivated than ever to support her and her fight so that she is another inspiring success story to the thousands affected by blood cancers. I know we will see the cure through research funded by LLS.”

REGINA CARLTON

ALLSUP “My son would not be here today if it weren’t for cancer research funded by donations. My goal is to give every cancer patient and his or her family the same hope that has been given to us – a hope for a cure!”

JENNIFER MATUS

THE MATUS GROUP REAL ESTATE ADvISORS “There are certain people put into your life for a reason, and when that beautiful person at the young age of 30 has battled and defeated Stage 2 Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, you don’t think … you just do. So, here we are, Team Kimpossible, ready to take on this challenge. Team Kimpossible, because together all things are possible.”

MATT DOYLE

PwC “Any cancer diagnosis is devastating to the patient and their family and friends. Raising awareness and funding for research and support for those battling this terrible disease is why I am participating in this year’s campaign.”

SARA MCFARLANE

SALvIN DENTAL SPECIALTIES “Cancer research funded by donations helps identify and develop strategies for prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Best yet, it allows people to keep faith in the future and for a cure.”

ANDREW FOLEY

DRIvE SOCIAL MEDIA “Partnering with LLS to raise funds for blood cancer research is a special opportunity for me.

Watching my mother beat cancer and continue living an active life inspired me in a way nothing has before. I’m honored to work with other candidates and donors to help more patients and families feel the same.”

DAWN RUEHL

COLONIAL LIFE “My life has been touched by so many forms of cancer. I have seen firsthand the devastating toll leukemia can take on a family. A longtime friend’s son has battled valiantly, and without LLS, their family would be a shell of who they are today.”

WENDY GILTNER

MERRILL LYNCH “I am blessed to be a survivor of this disease that has taken so many lives and devastated too many families. It’s time to fight back, and I’m honored to take a stand with LLS.”

CORY SCHAEFER

TIMMERMANN GROUP “Like so many others, I have watched family and friends battle cancer – sometimes successfully, sometimes not. I am honored and humbled to be involved with LLS as we all work together toward finding a cure and making a positive difference in the lives of those affected by blood cancers.”

MATTHEW HARP

RYAN MANSE

EDWARD JONES “When you see people firsthand fight a terrible disease with courage, enthusiasm, strength and spirit, the easy thing to do is raise awareness and resources to give those fighting the disease the wind at their back.”

CUSHMAN & WAkEFIELD “Many lives have been lost, families shaken and relationships altered in the battles against cancer. … However, through generosity, compassion and research, we will win the war.”

ARIEL SHIFTER

RICK SPECTOR

WASHINGTON UNIvERSITY “Years ago, passionate individuals devoted their time and money to help discover the treatments that would later cure my cancer and give me a future past my diagnosis. I am dedicated to supporting the efforts that will someday give all cancer patients these same opportunities.”

JLL “Millions of people are affected every year by cancer. My goal is to do all I can to help give anyone who is affected a reason to hold out for hope.”

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cANdidAtes Area high school and college students take part by building awareness and promoting the organization’s mission. The top student fundraiser earns a scholarship opportunity and title of Student of the Year.

NIVI BIJU

RoCkwood MaRquette HiGH SCHooL “My sophomore year of high school, I was tested for leukemia.

Thankfully, my tests proved negative. My experience at the cancer center inspired me to help families struggling with the disease.”

COOPER HARRISON

QUINCY UNIvERSITY “I believe, without LLS, I would not be here today to say that I have accomplished my dreams of becoming a college football player.

My goal is to give every person the right to pursue their dreams, whether it is athletic, academic, artistic, scientific or even religious.”

RILEY JUENGER

UNIvERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI “LLS gives me the opportunity to raise money and awareness for a cancer that doesn’t care what age you are and to impact the lives of those fighting blood cancers. I am honored and humbled to be nominated for LLS Student of the Year 2017.”

GOKUL VENKATACHALAM

PARkWAY WEST HIGH SCHOOL “Many members in my community have suffered from a variety of cancers, including blood cancers. I believe we should strive to make life as fair as possible, and I want to make lives fair for people who suffer from cancer and possibly prevent cancer in the first place.”

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uests had the chance to join the circus at HavenHouse St. Louis’ 11th annual HopeFest gala, themed Cirque du HopeFest, at the Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis.

The event’s big top-inspired décor provided a frolicsome backdrop for the important business at hand: to raise funds to support HavenHouse St. Louis and to honor outstanding local physicians.

Guests enjoyed cocktails and an exquisite dinner, complete with special performances. The HopeFest gala, HavenHouse St. Louis’ most important fundraiser of the year, provides 16 percent of the organization’s annual operating budget. Founded in 2005, HavenHouse St. Louis has given care and support to more than 80,000 people and provides a comfortable, homelike place to stay, as well as meals, transportation and support services to patients and families while they visit here to receive medical treatment.

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HavenHouse is a one-of-a-kind hospital partner, providing the comfort of home and a community of support to patients and families who travel to St. Louis to receive medical care. We give them a place to relax together, two home-cooked meals a day, transportation to and from medical facilities and around-the-clock support services.

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Legal Services of Eastern Missouri

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egal Services of Eastern Missouri (LSEM) hosted its 27th annual Justice for All Ball at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis at The Arch. Honorary co-chairs were Gayle C. Williams, the organization’s associate director, and her husband, Judge Michael T. Jamison of the 21st Judicial Circuit Court. Cochairing the event were Susan McCourt Baltz and Maureen Farr. More than 700 guests enjoyed dinner and dancing with music from the Funky Butt Brass Band, a charity auction headlined by McGraw Milhaven of radio station KTRS, a special memorial tribute to Missouri Supreme Court Judge Richard B. Teitelman and an after-party sponsored by the Young Friends of LSEM. All proceeds benefited the organization, which turned 60 last year.

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Chuck and Julie Poplstein

Sheree Davis, Ashley Moore

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The work we do is critically important to low-income individuals, to provide them with legal representation. We need resources and support to do this line of work. Tonight is a celebration of the importance of our work.

DAN GLAZIER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF LSEM

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Kelly Hattle, Rudy Telscher, Donald and Carolyn Beimdiek

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Ann and Steven Holtshouser

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Ladue Horton Watkins High School

LADUE LOCAL HEROES

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he latest class of Ladue Local Heroes has done Ladue Horton Watkins High School proud. Selected by the school’s Distinguished Alumni Committee in conjunction with the Ladue Education Foundation, these 17 honorees took the lessons they learned at the school and made the most of them. To be eligible, alumni must have graduated between 1952 and 2007 and made an impact in their respective fields, not only locally but also nationally. These leaders in business, athletics, volunteerism, education, philanthropy, law, media and the arts gathered in the school’s performing arts center with many other alumni and even former and current faculty and staff to reminisce and reflect on what they gained as students and teachers at the school.

Sheri and Barry Glantz

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I’m just so grateful for the foundation that Ladue provided me in my years through elementary, junior high and high school. They created a culture that inspired me and others to embrace community service and leadership opportunities. I know that those truly shaped my career, and I’m so grateful for that foundation that they gave me.

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upport Dogs Inc. recently hosted its annual gala, A Fetching Affair, at The Chase Park Plaza. The event benefited the nonprofit, with funds going toward providing highly skilled service dogs to individuals with disabilities and uniquely trained therapy teams in the community, offering dignity, hope and independence to those the organization serves.

While guests mingled, they were encouraged to browse a limited selection of silent auction items and to view amazing demonstrations from the nonprofit’s trained dogs. At 8 p.m., guests took their seats for dinner, a presentation and an oral auction that included naming rights for a litter of puppies, St. Louis Cardinals suite tickets and more.

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Upcoming

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‌Fri., March 31

Gateway180 will host its eighth annual OPEN YOUR HEART FOR THE HOMELESS GALA with a “Light Up the Night” theme at the Grand Hall at Union Station. 6:30 to 11 p.m. (gateway180.org)

Fri., March 31

The Center for Hearing & Speech will host a TWILIGHT MASQUERADE at Hollywood Casino St. Louis. 6:30 to 10 p.m. (hearing-speechstlouis.org)

Sat., April 1

St. Louis Crisis Nursery will have its RAZZLE DAZZLE BALL at the Sheraton Westport Chalet Hotel. 5:45 p.m. (crisisnurserykids.org)

Sun., April 2

Metro Theater Company will host A PLAYFUL CELEBRATION: TOY FEST at The Pageant. 4 to 8 p.m. (metroplays.org)

Tue., April 4

Thu., April 6

Academy of Science of St. Louis presents the 23rd annual OUTSTANDING ST. LOUIS SCIENTISTS AWARDS at The Chase Park Plaza. 5:30 p.m. (academyofsciencestl.org)

Thu., April 6

Today & Tomorrow Educational Foundation will host the eighth annual ARCHBISHOP’S GALA at The RitzCarlton, St. Louis. 6 p.m. (ttef-stl.org)

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United 4 Children presents its 11th annual LIGHTING THE WAY… AT THE RACES fundraising gala at the Randall Gallery. 5:30 p.m. (united4children.org)

Paraquad will host the 2017 SHINE THE LIGHT AWARDS at The Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis. 6 p.m. (paraquad.org)

Congratulations! The Humane Society of Missouri’s Women's Leadership Council has raised $500,000+ to help homeless animals!

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Steering Committee members of the Women’s Leadership Council pictured above Top Row (left to right): Suzie Easton, Sandy Schlicht, Debbie Smiley, Julie Keil, Mary Eddington, Dorothy Diehl, Celeste Sprung, Susan Ittner, Lainey Strohmeyer Bottom Row (left to right): Judy Calhoun, Kathy Warnick, Pat Erb, Harika Fava, Jan Torrisi-Mokwa, Helen Antoine, Heather McPike Not Pictured: Anita Campbell, Kathie Day, Cathy Berges, Casey Kleekamp, Marilyn Gaffney

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hen the clients bought this house on the grounds of Town and Country’s Bellerive Country Club, they knew it would be a labor of love. The house was designed by renowned St. Louis architect William Bernoudy, so their goal was to reclaim and restore the property while keeping the distinct Bernoudy feel.

The clients approached Gigi Lombrano of Gigi Lombrano Interiors for help in achieving their goal.

“We wanted to pay homage to Bernoudy, but we also didn’t want to be constrained to a certain aesthetic,” Lombrano notes.

Lombrano used rich and warm colors to make spaces like this living room inviting. Since her clients enjoy traveling and collecting art, they decided to steer away from bold statement colors and keep the space more neutral-toned. This made it easier to incorporate any existing and future art pieces they wanted to display in their home.

“The house was kind of hidden under previous renovations, so when we started remodeling, we were taking away instead of adding [to the home],” Lombrano says. “This wasn’t the clients’ first time doing a remodeling project, so they were confident in their choices and were easy to work with. This project was all about reclaiming the house and keeping its character.”

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We’re loving the way upholstery makers are adding interest and color to furnishings without employing busy fabric patterns. You, too, can take advantage of this upholstery technique on your own custom pieces by pairing two different fabrics in the desired hues. To create a contemporary look, forego a straight edge where the fabrics meet, illustrated by this handsome settee.

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hile food trucks and mobile fashion boutiques have been sweeping the nation over the past decade, home décor is one ever-growing retail market that has been, until recent years, widely untapped by the “shop on wheels” phenomenon. That’s what sparked the idea for Jennifer Saputo-Peterson last year.

“I was really inspired by the fashion trucks in St. Louis – it was something I had seen on the coasts, and heard about, but I had never seen one for myself,” says Saputo-Peterson, who is founder of the Indigo Home mobile home décor boutique. A St. Charles native who had spent the better part of her early adulthood living and working in New York City as a singer and actress, she loved the urban-rich experience of truck shops. But as someone who is not much of a clotheshorse, Saputo-Peterson wanted to create her own spinoff of the idea, perhaps a little less fashion-centric. She brought the idea of a homedécor truck to her husband, Michael Peterson, who immediately recognized its

potential. After researching, they were delighted to discover they were among the first in the Midwest to hop on this train – and got to work.

Plugging into their entrepreneurial pursuit on days off from their full-time gigs as a corporate wellness coach and telecommunication sales manager (Saputo-Peterson and Peterson, respectively), the pair didn’t have to go far to check the first big item off their to-do list, procuring a truck in Chesterfield from a Craigslist ad – a former Jays potato chips truck that had found a second life as a food distribution truck. The truck, by the couple’s admission, was a mess. Enlisting the help of both sets of parents and Saputo-Peterson’s brother, the team was able to give it a full facelift in a matter of weeks. “We hauled,” Saputo-Peterson says, “[and we] spent all of our free time on the truck.”

Indigo Home, which officially opened for business last June, was finished with insulated fiberboard walls, laminate wood flooring, crown molding, baseboards and inviting French doors on the rear. “We wanted to add elements to it so it looked like you were stepping into your living room,” Saputo-Peterson describes.

Using their winter off-season to add built-in bookcases and thoughtful lighting throughout the truck, they saw their efforts result in a calm, welcoming space for the shopper, with tons of functional storage and display space for the couple.

The name Indigo Home was inspired by Saputo-Peterson’s grandmother, a talented oil painter whose favorite color was indigo.

Curating the collection to carry in the truck takes a lot of strategy and planning on Saputo-Peterson’s part. Items sold are “an eclectic mix of classic and modern,” she describes. With such limited space, she really has room only for statement pieces, “the little things that make your house a home,” according to Saputo-Peterson. “Nobody’s going to remember what your couch looked like, but they’re going to remember those great throw pillows or the cozy throw they curled up with at the end of the night.” The Indigo Home collection is

a combination of buyers’ markets and Etsy research, with a definite nod to local artisans. “Anytime we come across someone local we think is awesome, we’re going to carry them, because why not support local?” Saputo-Peterson says.

The couple aims to keep their collection eclectic, interesting and affordable. “I don’t think you have to spend thousands of dollars to make your home look pretty,” Saputo-Peterson says. “I don’t think you [even] necessarily have to have an aesthetic – if it’s something that speaks to you, who cares. It will work depending on the personality you give it – a blanket is just a blanket until you put it on your couch. A picture frame is just a picture frame until you put your memory in it. That’s how your personality comes through.”

The spring collection on the truck incorporates a lot of outdoor elements, as outdoor spaces have become an extension of the living room in many ways. A variety of florals and planters are on deck for the truck this year, as well as hand-printed herb garden markers to go along with the planters. “They’re from a small maker in Maryland I randomly found through Etsy,” Saputo-Peterson says. “It’s fun – I like the thrill of the chase, finding those special items you really get excited about.” Existing trends of natural elements – weathered materials, galvanized metals, recycled materials – are all staying strong this year, with the addition of bright neons for outdoor décor and various shades of green, in line with the 2017 Pantone color of the year, Greenery.

If you find blindly walking into a home-décor shop intimidating, Saputo-Peterson also offers in-home consultations on the side, a service she hopes to grow in the future. “It’s not something we advertise, but if someone asks, we do have a system in place,” she says. “I like to call what I do not ‘interior design,’ but ‘home editing.’” With Saputo-Peterson’s system, she takes what clients already have in their homes and makes it more functional in given spaces, and with the styling service, she includes a 20 percent discount on any items purchased from the truck. “You don’t have to spend gobs of money to make your home look the way you want it to,” she emphasizes.

“She has a vision they might not have because they think they might have to go out and spend thousands of dollars to replace everything,” Peterson adds. “That’s not necessarily the case.”

With both still keeping their full-time day jobs, the couple’s plans this year are simply to grow their business – on the retail end, as well as in home-styling services.

They plan to launch online sales this year through the Indigo Home website. Until then, you can shop Indigo Home at any of the events listed on the company website or Facebook page, including Truck Shop Saturday, a year-round event at Tower Grove Park on the third Saturday of most months from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Her dream persevered, bringing Brinker satisfaction.

“My first transaction was in March 2015. Since then, I’ve helped clients buy or sell 41 homes while topping the list of most sales compared to peer agents,” she says. “I’ve been in the construction industry for 20-plus years, and am so grateful to be able to parlay that experience into something meaningful for my clients.”

Brinker resolves to share the ups and downs of buying and selling with complete transparency and respect.

“Treat your clients like you would your family and best friends. It is absolutely paramount to provide clients with the most accurate information – and hardest of truths – so they can make the best decision based on current market conditions,” she recommends. “[The word] ‘shelter’ holds a special place in my heart because I know from personal experience how important safety is in allowing people to achieve self-actualization. I absolutely adore being a conduit for clients to achieve what is likely one of their biggest goals and investments – home ownership.”

Brinker believes her success would be incomplete without the backing of her family. “I have a wonderful support team, including my husband and oldest daughter, who help ensure our twin girls don’t miss a beat,” she says. “They make time to re-create special memories.” In her free time, she also helps out at Safe

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‌ hen the Saint Louis Fashion Incubator (SLFI) W announced its inaugural class of designers, the list of talents included both locals and artists from across the country.

The chosen six included accessory designer Allison Mitchell, the creator of a line of luxury clutches, purses and small accessories made from opulent hides. Ladue News recently caught up with the designer to learn more about her work, her St. Louis space and her experience with the SLFI. How did you begin working with accessories?

I fell into this career path by accident. I wanted an oversized clutch, and I couldn’t find anything that fit my vision, so I made one. Everyone who saw it wanted one, and when the demand for it went beyond family and friends to a buyer from a boutique in Dallas, I decided to launch a small collection of oversized calfhair clutches to see if they created any traction.

Needless to say, the reaction from the Dallas market was beyond anything I could have imagined, and we sold out a couple of times over the first few months in business. I actually resisted fully delving into the demands of being an independent designer for a while, mostly because I already had a business – a digital marketing agency that I founded in Dallas – but also because I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer. …

I went for it, and thank goodness. I found that I had a natural knack for designing handbags that people loved and had never seen before.

You work with such unique and unusual skins.

What draws you to these hides instead of standard leather?

I have to see the materials in order to design a bag – the materials have always told me what to do, not the other way around. It’s the unusual materials that speak to me, so that’s probably why I use them.

A side of nappa lambskin is beautiful in its own right, but when I look at it, I don’t see the end result. That vision has to be there for me. … I see the entire bag in its finished state when I look at a skin or hide that inspires me, then I make a mini clay model of the bag with as much detail as possible so my manufacturer and I are completely on the same page. My office is full of tiny bag sculptures!

The linings of the bag are also unusual, yet clearly intentional. How are those selected?

It’s all part of that vision I get when I look at a material that speaks to me. I just sort of know what the lining needs to be, and I go find it. I love thoughtful design and subtlety, and the surprise linings are like a little secret for the wearer.

Could you tell me a bit about your studio?

I design wherever I am and wherever my modeling

clay is. My studio is located in the Saint Louis Fashion Incubator on Washington Avenue, and it doubles as my working headquarters as well as my creative space.

I’ve set it up to look like more of a showroom for my pieces and collections, with blown-up photos from my first lookbook on my wall and a little sitting area with a cowhide rug.

Who are you imagining when you create your designs?

I have to admit, I only design things that I would love to have in my own closet. I ask myself, “If you could have any bag to go with this outfit, what would it be?” And then I make it. I love that!

Where are your items available?

We sell to many small boutiques around the country, including a store in Toronto and one in Tokyo. But all styles are always available on our website, and sometimes we even have secret sample sales online.

How did you get involved with the SLFI, and what has the experience been like so far?

They came to Dallas to recruit local designers.

I was so blown away, and the opportunity came at such a perfect time. I knew I couldn’t pass it up.

The experience here has been totally life-changing.

The amount of support, opportunity and direct connections with high-up industry professionals in New York are such a leg up for an emerging designer.

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For more than 30 years, family-owned Sole Survivor has been producing fine leather goods in the St. Louis area, fusing traditional techniques with modern trends.

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magine the perfectly worn-in leather bag. Be it a briefcase or a shoulder bag, the too-cool characters in movies always seem to sling exquisitely aged leather carryalls over their arms, as if to show they care about quality – but are simply too chic to shop anywhere you’ve heard of. Such bags are timeless statement pieces growing better with age, yet so different from any purse or tote you could find at department stores.

That’s because bags like that come from Sole Survivor.

Looking at a Sole Survivor bag means admiring the designer’s craftsmanship, rather than the monogrammed initials that often result in a hefty price tag. And these leather accessories – ranging from bags to belts to bracelets – are designed and made by a family business located in Maplewood.

“Upon seeing the store, most people know right away that there is something special here,” says co-owner Kay Rye. “Our store visitors seem to know instinctively that the goods are made here and that they will never, ever have to doubt whether our goods are real leather.” She notes the smell of leather is noticeable even before you walk in.

Kay and Steve rye with their daughter annie in their workshop.

“Steve began working with leather in the ’60s,” Rye says of her husband, the original craftsman of the family. “Times were similar to today, with many people working creatively with their hands in a variety of mediums – he fell in love with leather and decided at that time to make it his life’s work.” In the late ’70s, Rye joined the field “as a direct result of meeting and dating Steve.”

Before opening a brick-and-mortar shop, the Ryes – not yet parents – traveled around the country selling their leather goods. They settled down when they started a family, and opened a physical store in the Central West End in 1985.

“My natural interests are more toward the business end of things, so that made us a good fit,” Rye says. “Today, I’m still responsible for everything business-related, and I keep my hands in the work as much as possible. I make a lot of belts, both ready to wear as well as custom for people who have special buckles. I

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also spend time making sculptural vessels out of leather.”

The Ryes, both Illinois natives, have been doing business and living in St. Louis since 1985. After its launch in the Central West End, their business also spent a number of years in the Delmar Loop. The current location on Manchester Road occupies the heart of the main Maplewood strip.

“We noticed Maplewood many years ago and always thought about coming here,” Rye says. “One day, we were strolling Manchester and noticed a little shop for rent. We looked at each other and knew what was coming next. It was a whirlwind, and within one month, we moved and opened up for business in Maplewood [in February 2015]. It’s been the best decision of our career!”

Over time, the Ryes’ three children have all worked in or with the shop in some capacity, and their youngest, 29-yearold Annie, has worked with the company full time for 10 years, doing a combination of her own designs and stock pieces.

Sole Survivor has a few recurring customer favorites, Rye notes, like the drawstring Kate bag and the miniature Donna bag. “But the real specialty is our one-of-a-kind bags – Steve usually makes a collection of six to 10 bags two or three times a year,” she says. “The starting point for these collections is the leather – it’s always going to be something special like moose, bison, hair-on calf or something especially fine from Italy. Right now, he is working on a collection of elk-skin bags – with fringe.

We haven’t done fringe in years!”

Most Sole Survivor leather comes from European tanneries, says Rye; she notes her and her husband’s 40-plus years of experience when explaining that they’re able to use their extensive knowledge of and experience with hides when working with vendors. “We’ve developed relationships with our suppliers, who regularly send us samples and keep us up to date on new colors or processes,” she says. “From these sources, Sole Survivor selects leathers that best suit the particular needs of the styles, designs and quality goods produced daily in the workshop.”

Products from Sole Survivor are on the higher end pricewise, without seeming needlessly expensive. Belts start in the mid$50s and cuffs in the low $30s. Wallets and bags vary in price; the Clark Polished Edge Tri-Fold Wallet, for example, lists for $68, and leather satchels range in price from $225 to $395.

Even a few unusual accessories – like holiday bells attached to decorative leather straps– are available at this local leather haven.

“Something else that sets Sole Survivor bags apart from even high-end bag-makers is that there is no compromise on hardware,” Rye says. “No ‘gold-toned’ or ‘silver-toned’ metals here – just good solid brass, chrome or stainless steel.” The shop defines itself as “making original goods and timeless designs using the best of the most interesting leathers and quality hardware,” and one visit will prove that the idea of quality is woven – and stitched and buckled and sewn – into every aspect of Sole Survivor.

Sole Survivor, 7312 Manchester Road, Maplewood, 314-932-1475, solesurvivorleather.com

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BLUEPRINT4SUMMERSTL TEAM The St. Louis-based app Blueprint4SummerSTL has proven so popular it recently birthed a subsidiary piece of smartphone tech.

The easy-to-use, free “parent” app rolled out in 2015 as part of the Clark-Fox Family Foundation’s efforts to make a difference in the economic development of the St. Louis region through programming and investment in K-12 public education.

Maxine Clark Blueprint4SummerSTL helps families and students find the best-fit program among the bevy of summer camp options available throughout the region.

Now approaching its third summer, the website has grown to include nearly 7,000 summer camps, running the gamut from Allie Cicotte cooking and traditional sports and music to underwater robotics, outdoor gardening and camps that teach students how to eat healthily. Last year alone, Blueprint4SummerSTL donors provided $50,000 in scholarship funding, enabling 232 students across 19 summer programs to attend the program of their choice.

This year, Blueprint4SummerSTL launched its offshoot program, Blueprint4Summer College Prep, also a free app which enables high school students, parents, teachers and advisors to find enriching summer programs on college campuses across the country. LN spoke with founder Maxine Clark and programs manager Allie Cicotte to learn more.

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What is Blueprint4Summer College Prep – and how does it work?

AC: We’ve had such positive feedback about the ease of use for Blueprint4Summer, so we copied a lot of the same structure. You can search for [college summer] programs by interest – such as academic prep, arts, leadership, STEM [science, technology, engineering and mathematics], test prep or sports – as well as programs that provide transportation, are competitive, have available scholarships or stipends and provide college credit.

The programs listed are nationwide; it lets St. Louis students find out that there might be an opportunity open to them, even if it’s farther from home.

MC: These programs are academically competitive; these colleges are hoping you’ll apply as a student, and they’ll already know you. They want to know the students who come are prepared. They’re amazing programs. We visited some of them, and I had no idea there were some of these programs around. This is a boon to a college counselor as well, who is helping sophomores and juniors decide what they’re doing their senior year.

What kind of advantage does going to a college prep summer program give high school students applying to a university?

MC: It gives them a knowledge of college life. Even if they’re applying to other colleges besides the one they went to over the summer, they can speak to that experience, and I think that’s going to be refreshing for college admissions officers. It speaks to the student’s maturity, curiosity and interest. Colleges like to see extracurricular activities, and they’re going to take note of a student having the initiative to go to a summer

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program. You might also get to know the people who work and teach at the college. Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, has a summer program taught by college professors. Universities like it because it gives them the opportunity to leverage their dorms, attracting new students. It’s a win-win for everybody.

AC: One other thing it gives the students is the opportunity to explore either their major interest or career interest before declaring that and choosing a school based on their major interest.

What are long-term goals you have for this app?

MC: We hope that more and more kids will be inspired to find their passion in their summer program, which will help them to be more successful in school. The hardest thing to find out is “What do you want to be when you grow up?” And the more experiences kids have, the more inspired kids will be.

They’ll find something they want to do and maybe develop their career around it. The reasons for summer camp are to make sure kids are safe, having a good time and learning about themselves – and in turn, preventing summer learning loss. From a socialization aspect, students get to meet people outside of their own community or neighborhood, meet new friends in a fun, stimulating camp environment, get outside and engage in healthier activities. Some people call them soft benefits, but I keep thinking, “Where would I have been if I didn’t go to that day camp?”

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Q&A

Hyken’s HOMEWORK Shining Light on Summer Camp

By Dr. Russell Hyken

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ur boys have been going to overnight camps for many years. My wife and I used to worry about them spending time away from us, wondering if they were having fun – if they liked their cabinmates, the food and so forth. We had many anxious thoughts.

These days, though, excitement builds weeks before their departure. The kids look forward to disconnecting from electronics and school to spend time with great friends and enjoy outdoor adventures, while we look forward to a more relaxed schedule and quiet dinners.

That said, it took a few years for us to truly relax while our kids were away.

Parents spend their children’s formative years protecting and nurturing them.

Trusting this responsibility to someone else could provoke angst in anyone – so parents, put your worries aside, and focus on your children!

Kids often become ready to attend overnight camp long before parents become comfortable sending them. There’s no definitive rule about the appropriate age to start overnight camping.

Most camp professionals agree readiness hinges more on attitude than chronological age, and many campers begin “overnights” as young as nine or 10 years old. If your child can sleep out and wants to go on a unique summer adventure, then he or she is ready for cabin living.

After deciding to permit overnight camping, choose a camp of appropriate length. Many parents believe a week away to be enough time to “trial” the camp experience; seven days, though, may not be long enough for a camper to relax, conquer homesickness and develop solid relationships with newfound friends. So consider two weeks or more to fully maximize the life-changing experience camp can provide.

Last, ask your child what type of summer camp he or she might like to attend.

Just because you enjoyed canoeing and camping as a kid doesn’t mean that your son or daughter will have the same interests. There are performing-arts camps, sports specialty camps and unique educational opportunities. Explore alternatives, attend summer opportunity fairs and collaboratively discuss what makes the most sense. Letting your children choose a camp allows them to have their own experience.

Camp constitutes a place for kids to try new things, become more independent and gain self-confidence. Simple challenges for children include building fires, going on hikes or learning to ride horses; more complex situations, though, include understanding how to get along with others, learning to ask for help and trying things outside one’s comfort zone. Letting go can be difficult for parents, but it’s life-changing for kids.

Most camp professionals agree readiness hinges more on attitude than chronological age.

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Each play will be introduced by Rick Dildine and presented in its entirety on a weekly basis. This new program has sponsorships still available. If interested, please contact Oather Kelly at okelly@rafstl.org.

For a full schedule, please visit rafstl.org/shakespeare

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1. Discord goddess 5. Intense 10. Marshmallow candy brand 15. Wail 19. Skirt of a kind 20. Fluorescent dye 21. Williams of “Family Guy” 22. Hodgepodge 23. Start of a quip by anonymous: 6 wds.

27. Old Semitic language 28. Duct for smoke 29. Sevenfold 30. Verb type: Abbr.

32. Artillery 34. Espies 35. Boorish 38. Poe’s “Murders in the — Morgue” 40. Threshold 42. “Truly Madly —” 46. Function 47. Marsh bird 49. Invent 51. Plumlike fruit 52. Part of NATO: Abbr.

53. Part 2 of quip: 4 wds.

57. Altar constellation 58. — public 60. Muscle quality 61. Famed sculpture 62. — and outs 63. Money in Sweden 64. Feral 66. Reduce 67. “The Confessions of — Turner” 68. The gallop, e.g.

70. Steep slopes 72. Amounts 74. Simian 76. Nonclerical 78. Part of AMA or ABA: Abbr.

79. — lazuli 82. Cudgel 83. Goes quickly 85. Pindarics 87. Goddess of the dawn 88. Timber tree

89. Part 3 of quip: 3 wds.

92. Krazy — of old comics 93. Female ones 95. Bridge 96. Otherworldly 97. Boundary 98. Beleaguer 101. AKA Romain de Tirtoff 103. Kinsman: Abbr.

104. Prongs 105. Edible part 107. Sayings 109. Port of —, Trinidad 111. Elementary particle 115. Tidings 117. Craftsman 121. End of the quip: 4 wds.

124. Thin 125. Place in Asia 126. Lost: 2 wds.

127. Wall pier 128. — vital 129. Muscadine, e.g.

130. Trips 131. Bound

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1. R&B great James 2. Industrial region of Germany 3. Virginia willow 4. Guess 5. Norse gods 6. Musical work 7. Org. for GIs 8. Quarrel 9. — Gay 10. Art of argumentation 11. Annex 12. Wallach and Whitney 13. Spear cousins 14. Oozed 15. Rewards 16. Cockeyed 17. — -o’-the-wisp 18. Ore deposit 24. Corn spikes 25. A pronoun 26. To — — (exactly) 31. Kind of trip 33. Sailing vessel 35. Eccentric one 36. Whirlybird part

37. At once: 2 wds.

39. Joints 41. Caps 43. Forthright 44. “— Doone” 45. Baking need 47. Leguminous plant 48. Membranous sheath 50. — - do-well 53. Weakness 54. Supporting column 55. Elevator name 56. Sorcerer’s servant 59. Santa — 65. Bring to light (with “up”) 69. Dasheen 70. Copy 71. Like better 73. Vina del —, Chile 74. Disconcert 75. High-ranking Turk 77. Some promises 80. Wrathful 81. Fills 84. Homophone for 86-Down 86. Homophone for 84-Down 87. Festival 90. Extricate 91. Kind of Chinese umbrella: Hyph.

94. Japanese instrument 97. Smallest 99. OT name 100. Pacific islands garb 102. Pitcher 104. Josip Broz 106. Campanile 108. Blood, — and tears 110. Wall hanging 111. Decrease 112. Kind of surgeon 113. Antitoxins 114. — palm 116. Onetime Japanese PM 118. — die 119. “Thin Man” dog 120. — tide 122. Catch some z’s 123. Baton Rouge campus

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TOMORROW’S MEDICINE, TODAY:

Subtle change, permanent impact Prominent ears are common, but for some they can be problematic for self-esteem and self-image. The good news is that prominent or protruding ears can be corrected with a simple cosmetic procedure: otoplasty is an outpatient cosmetic surgery that can permanently change the appearance of your ears.

The first step for surgical correction is identifying the part of the ear that is causing the problem. The ear’s complex shape is created by multiple bends and folds in the cartilage, but there are only a few points critical in correcting the shape of a prominent ear: •

If the upper portion of the ear protrudes more, it is likely caused by improper cartilage folding, like a lack of an anti-helical fold. Without this bend in the ear’s cartilage, the upper portion of the ear will protrude from the head. This deformity is addressed by surgically recreating the absent fold.

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If the middle portion of the ear protrudes more, it is likely caused by an abnormality of the conchal bowl—the curved part of the ear just outside the ear canal. If this cartilage is too large or fails to fully bend, the middle portion of the ear will protrude from the head. This deformity is addressed by trimming the excess cartilage.

Otoplasty is commonly performed through an incision behind the ear, and surgery may be performed on patients as young as six years old. After the procedure, patients wear a headband for a week or two to protect the ears and hold the proper position as they heal. Otoplasty involves minimal downtime from school, work and other normal activities. For more information, or a treatment tailored to your needs, call our office for your consultation.

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Brightening Birthdays

By Connie Mitchell | Photos by Sarah Conroy

A locAl orgAnizAtion brings the joy of celebrAting A birthdAy And receiving presents to children Across the st. louis AreA.

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indy Lander Wallach looked around as she sat amid the typical birthday-party chaos. Her daughter and friends were laughing between bites of cake. Balloons floated from strings, and wrapping paper from opened gifts lay strewn around the table.

Wallach was grateful that her daughter could celebrate her birthday with friends, enjoying the spotlight that every birthday boy or girl looks forward to once a year. At the same time, Wallach knew that not all children were this lucky and that birthday joy was an unknown pleasure for those whose parents struggled just to put food on the table or for those who had no parents at all.

“Ever since my kids [a son, now 15, and a daughter, now 13] were little and were able to understand empathy and helping others, it’s been important to my husband, John, and me to teach them about caring for other people,” Wallach notes. That emphasis led the family to donate toys to local agencies and homeless shelters. But as Wallach’s own 50th birthday approached, it seemed like a good time to take her family’s commitment a step further.

“I had always thought that I wanted to do something to help the community in a way that the kids could be involved, and I wanted it to be a significant time to start it,” she says. Wallach’s vision, with contributions of ideas from her family, friends and, eventually, contacts and caseworkers at local agencies serving children in need, sharpened into Birthday Joy, an organization providing birthday gifts to children in need.

On Wallach’s 50th birthday, April 2, 2012, Birthday Joy became a reality. Friends and family brought toys and gift cards for children in need to Wallach’s birthday party. “The response was incredible,” she says. Wallach created a network of funding sources and contacts who provided lists of children who could benefit from Birthday Joy. Once notified of a child’s birthday and specifics, such as age, Wallach involved her children in shopping for and delivering gifts. Slowly, word spread and Wallach began receiving calls asking how other families could get involved. “It was always important for kids to be able to help kids,” she says. “And kids can relate to birthdays.”

Since 2012, Birthday Joy has provided more than 3,000 birthday presents to children affiliated with several local organizations, including the Family Resource Center, Our Little Haven and Gateway Homeless Services. (A full list is available at birthdayjoy.org.)

Wallach also notes that Birthday Joy is supported by individuals who have contributed time, expertise and funding. Angela and J.J. Flotken, who have three young daughters, contacted Wallach two years ago and have been instrumental in involving families with young children. “Angela has been responsible for toy drives with area schools, children donating birthday presents from birthday parties – her children did this – fundraisers with Lucky’s Market and Trader Joe’s, and so much more,” Wallach says. “She and her family have shopped for hundreds of children and assembled hundreds of gift bags over the years. She was a great sounding board on growing the organization and taking it to the next level.”

Since both Wallach and the Flotkens have experience in marketing, they worked together to improve Birthday Joy’s website and social media presence. “I love doing charity work and look for things to do with my children,” Angela Flotken says. “This is so approachable to my children, because they understand what it would feel like not to get anything for a birthday.”

Michael Staenberg, a local real estate developer, and his wife, Carol, also supported Birthday Joy from its earliest days. “Michael challenged me to think bigger and

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broader, while being specific and detail-oriented with the business plan and the dayto-day operation,” Wallach says. “The combination has been very successful in helping to grow the organization.”

After the death of her father, Arthur Lander, a Shriner, three years ago, Wallach worked with Shriners Hospital for Children to establish Arthur’s Birthday Joy Area, which opened last year. Donated toys and gift-wrapping materials are available for families affiliated with the hospital. A second Birthday Joy Area is located at Gateway 180 Homeless Services. Like the hospital-based location, this offers caseworkers and parents a chance to choose and wrap a free birthday gift for their individual children.

Whether delivered by a caseworker, a parent who couldn’t otherwise afford a gift or a Birthday Joy volunteer, the thank-you notes from children always touch Wallach’s heart. “Everything in my birthday present is pink? That is my favorite color,” said one 4-year-old girl. “Thank you for making my birthday so special. This was my 10th birthday, and it was the best I ever had,” another child wrote.

Agency representatives have been equally effusive. As one Family Resource Center representative shared on the Birthday Joy website: “We appreciate what Birthday Joy is about. No child should be robbed of the joys of a normal childhood just because of [his or her] family or living situation. These birthday gifts give the kids a sense of normalcy and tradition that they would most likely not otherwise have. It is such a joy to see their faces light up when they are given a gift.”

Volunteering is easy and can include shopping for gifts, assembling gift bags and delivering. Monetary donations can also be made in honor of a loved one’s birthday.

The donation will help Birthday Joy purchase gifts. Wallach invites anyone interested in learning more to email her at cindy@birthdayjoy.org or call 314-922-8060. “Even as a grown-up, birthdays are still very special times for me to celebrate with my family,” Wallach says. “I look forward to birthday dinners each year with John and the kids, my mom, my brothers and their families, and my aunt. You’re never too old to celebrate a birthday.”

Birthday Joy, 314-922-8060, birthdayjoy.org

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you’re never too old to celebrate a birthday.

– cindy lander wallach

small business SPOTLIGHT

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and commercial artwork, custom framing and installation.

Having worked with interior designers for 39 years, ARCH creates high-quality custom framing from its state-of-theart production facility in Olivette. Discover its extensive network of local and regional artists, plus a catalog of wholesale images, to meet every design aesthetic. With more than 35,000 frames, ARCH offers one of the largest selections of unique frame moldings and mats in the region.

Spring has arrived, and with it, hundreds and hundreds of brilliant plants, flowers, trees and shrubs at Chesterfield Valley Nursery’s 10-plus acre, full-service Garden Center. It doesn’t take long to find inspiration for your landscape as you meander through lush greenhouses and walkways filled with vibrant and exquisitely displayed plants. Whether you seek traditional, native or new, you will find all that and

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9753 Clayton Road, 314-432-7289, s avvyladue.com Maintaining its excellent level of service, Savvy Surrounding Style proudly welcomes Judy Uelk, Therese Diederich and Ashley Nemeth to its team. Marketing manager Uelk, project manager Diederich and assistant Nemeth, who also works in accounting, all bring a wealth of experience and talent from their respective fields. The Savvy team is excited to have them come on board as the firm continues to grow and expand its offerings.

more, plus expert advice on plant selection and care. Come discover something extraordinary.

SHINE BOUTIQUE

THE SPOTTED PIG

This Ladue shop offers a stylish collection of bags, scarves,

The Spotted Pig offers beautifully unique accessories, gifts

jewelry, shoes, gifts and more. The name proudly reflects

and home décor for free spirits and fellow rustic, bohemian

the bright, happy and positive retail atmosphere for females

souls. The shop is a celebration of the home! It takes you

to explore its wide array of fashion-forward products.

on a global wander to a place where inspiration surrounds

Whether it’s a unique piece of clothing or a monogrammed

you in the form of earthy and eclectic treasures for you

gift, there’s something for everyone at Shine Boutique.

and your home. This free-spirited and cleverly curated

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collection of jewelry, accessories and home furnishings is brought to you from around the world.

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By Amanda Dahl

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ans of University City’s longstanding LuLu Seafood & Dim Sum can now get a taste of its Chinese food in fast-casual form. LuLu Asian Kitchen, which opened in Olivette in December, features its flagship’s dumplings, Chinese-American classics, build-your-own burritos, grab-and-go dishes and more.

The restaurant comes from Julia Li, who works with her mother, chef Jenny Lu, to make her family’s scratch-cooked Chinese cuisine more accessible throughout the area. The new establishment seeks to serve staples, while integrating health-conscious,

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Asian-centric to-go meals.

The debut of LuLu Asian Kitchen follows several related businesses that have popped up in recent years, including two locations of LuLu Chinese Express inside the Brentwood and Creve Coeur Dierbergs, as well as a food truck. (LuLu Seafood & Dim Sum, incidentally, opened in 2000 and got its name from Lu and her brother and co-founder, LiMing Lu.) The latest addition to the family brand – a great place to visit before catching Never the Sinner from New Jewish Theatre – occupies a strip mall space featuring a red-and-green color scheme, colorful photographs

By Mabel Suen

on the walls and plenty of seating for hungry neighborhood diners.

Visitors approaching the cafeteria-style hot line will find familiar takeout-style dishes prepared with fresh flair. Entrées include bourbon chicken, beef with broccoli, sesame beef, sweet-and-sour shrimp, Szechuan barbecue chicken and green-bean tofu.

The selections come as combination-platter meals with sides including Singapore-style noodles, lo mein noodles and vegetable fried rice.

Alternatively, entrėes like black-pepper chicken can be wrapped in a burrito with the customer’s choice

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LuLu Asian Kitchen

&NeverA the ShowSinner

PHOTO COURTESY OF JOHN LAMB‌

By Mark Bretz

of white rice, brown rice or vegetable fried rice.

Unlimited fillings include cilantro, lettuce, green onions, crispy noodles and sauces like hoisin or Sriracha.

Appetizers (grouped in price tiers) include egg rolls, pot stickers, pickled cucumbers, kimchi, seaweed salad, hot-and-sour soup, Vietnamese spring rolls and California sushi rolls. Among its dim sum, LuLu Asian Kitchen offers steamed barbecue-pork buns, egg-custard buns and pork shumai. Finally, drinks include fountain sodas, fruit smoothies and a selection of sake and wine.

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LuLu Asian Kitchen, 9626 Olive Blvd., Olivette,

‌Story: In 1924, two brilliant young students from Chicago met at the University of Chicago and became fast friends. Nathan Leopold was not yet 20 and already had completed an undergraduate degree, planning to enroll at Harvard Law School. Richard Loeb had been the University of Michigan’s youngest graduate, at age 17, and was still a teenager when he met Leopold.

The pair shared a physical attraction to each other, as well as a fascination with crime. Loeb was obsessed with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and the German’s concept of übermenschen (supermen), according to which some individuals’ superior intellects enable them to rise above the laws and rules observed by “average” people.

Also intrigued with crime, Loeb proposed that the two commit a random murder simply for the thrill and excitement of duping the police. After months of planning, they kidnapped a boy named Bobby Franks and murdered him, burying his body in a place they considered too obscure to find. They then contacted Franks’ family with a phony ransom demand.

Leopold and Loeb eventually were caught, though, and put on trial for murder. Famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow represented the pair and decided to have them plead guilty so he could direct his energies to the sentencing hearing held by the judge.

The “crime of the century” ended with the killers condemned to life imprisonment plus 99 years, thus escaping the death penalty.

Highlights: John Logan’s comprehensive and absorbing drama is being given a taut, compelling interpretation by director Rick Dildine and a top-notch cast in the current production from New Jewish Theatre, one that will linger with an audience long after leaving the theater.

Other Info: Never the Sinner was Logan’s first play, written in 1985 at age 24. He’s gone on to win a Tony Award for Red, as well as Oscar and other nominations for The Aviator and Gladiator, among other works.

So Logan has a penchant for the dark and macabre, as well as an eye for brilliance and superiority – all traits that merge in this study of two wealthy and intelligent men who, according to a psychiatrist at their hearing, were incapable of committing murder separately but became a deadly duo when combined.

Dildine coaxes magnetic performances out of Pete Winfrey as Loeb and Jack Zanger as Leopold.

Winfrey especially has Loeb come across as a seriously miswired sociopath, shockingly comparing the murder of Franks to the killing of a bug for scientific study. At other times, Winfrey’s Loeb becomes unhinged by the fact that his mother not once sees him at the trial or visits him in jail.

Zanger portrays Leopold as the more studious and

apprehensive of the pair, but also a teen fascinated with the allure of the roguish Leopold. The latter is described by the vapid tabloid reporters of the day as causing more than one female heart to flutter. Both performers cut dashing figures in the fancy suits costumed by Michele Friedman Siler, who furnishes more utilitarian garb for the various reporters and a crumpled look for Darrow.

Most impressive is John Flack as the renowned attorney. Intentionally stooped to indicate Darrow’s advancing age, as well as his world-weariness, Flack, with his pained expressions, seems to carry the weight of the sage’s wisdom and Darrow’s exhaustive and ingenious approach to representing his reprehensible clients. He’s particularly impressive as Darrow grapples to understand any possible motives.

Eric Dean White plays the overly sensitive prosecuting attorney Robert Crowe, who chafes at the notoriety that follows his older adversary, Darrow.

Maggie Conroy, Will Bonfiglio and John Reidy are in fine form as sundry scribes breathlessly writing down the words of these cold-blooded killers-turnedcelebrities, not much different from today’s reality TV. Reidy also has an amusing turn as a tongue-tied witness who obviously parrots testimony that’s been spoon-fed to him until Darrow trips him up.

Dildine’s program notes refer to Never the Sinner as “a love story.” In a bizarre, twisted way, it’s exactly that.

Most often, though, it’s a troubling and fascinating tale about two talented youths who threw away their freedom when they partnered to follow their worst impulses to tragic ends.

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Rating: A 4.5 on a scale of 1-to-5 Company: New Jewish Theatre Venue: Wool Studio Theater, Jewish Community

Center, 2 Millstone Campus Drive Dates: April 1, 2 Tickets: $39.50-$43.50; contact 314-442-3283

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Arts Speak Intersecting her two life passions, painting and healing, Dr. Sreelatha Varma, assistant professor at Saint Louis University School of Medicine and clinic director at SLUCare Internal Medicine at Des Peres, is showcasing her “Dream” series, at the Grafica Fine Art & Custom Framing gallery in Webster Groves, beginning March 31. Proceeds from “Dream” will benefit the Mid-America Transplant Foundation, which provides support to transplant patients, donor families and the community.

As a doctor and medical school professor, how did painting enter the picture?

I have been painting since the age of 16. I did art shows in India (benefiting blind children in India) before moving abroad to benefit society. We moved to Europe before moving to the United States, and I never stopped painting. When our son was growing up, I did artwork for school auctions.

How do you see your painting and your medical profession overlap?

My father, who passed away three years ago, was the greatest inspiration for me. He devoted his entire life doing charity work in India, and he educated many orphans, giving them free college education. Many of them settled well in life throughout the world. Before he passed away, his last words were that I should use my talents to help mankind. When I started working on the “Dream” series, I had no idea which charity it would benefit or how it would benefit mankind. My husband is a devoted transplant surgeon, and I saw how much he cares for his patients. I started reading all the letters sent by his patients and started compiling them – that made me understand how much these families go through. I

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thought it would give a greater purpose for me in life if I could help these families even a tiny bit. I was praying for some direction as to how to go about it, and I got a call from Lynn [Bozzay], the Grafica studio owner, who called and said, “Sree, what are your thoughts on donating the proceedings to Mid-America Transplant Foundation?” and I got my answer, and things evolved from there.

What mediums do you specialize in?

I do work with oils, acrylics and mixed media. I also do Kalamkari art, which is an age-old Indian art technique.

What inspires your art?

Dreams have inspired many artists throughout the years. Some dreams are very vivid and inspiring. I have actually dreamed about uncreated paintings most of the time. I get inspiration all around me, everywhere I venture, who I speak with, what I experience and everything I do outside of the art field. I have also traveled throughout the world and lived in Europe for five years, experiencing the utmost beauty of nature and God’s creation in these places.

What are your future goals for your art?

For my work to be enjoyed and recognized by others for its creativity, life and colors. I look at it as an opportunity to mentor others, especially on a personal level, uplifting their spirits by focusing on the best aspects of creation. I want my art to light a candle in the dark. It is a continuous journey, and I will not stop until my death.

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In the Garden

PORTRAIT PHOTO BY SARAH CONROY

A Q&A with Sreelatha Varma

Around Town

By Kaitlynn Martin

Sat., April 1

Laumeier Sculpture Park presents a free exhibition, “DRAWING FROM THE COLLECTION: 40 YEARS AT LAUMEIER.” The exhibition, which runs until mid-July, features preparatory drawings, prints, works on paper, collages and photographs that span the park’s 40 years. The opening reception takes place at its Adam Aronson Fine Arts Center.

11 a.m. to 1 p.m. 314-615-5278 or laumeier.org.

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Catch one of three performances of TAJ EXPRESS: THE BOLLYWOOD MUSICAL REVUE, presented by Dance St. Louis at the University of Missouri-St. Louis’ Touhill Performing Arts Center. The Bollywood show comes from Mumbai and “takes audiences on a live cinematic journey through modern Indian culture and society.”

Directing the choreography is Vaibhavi Merchant, known for choreographing more than 75 Bollywood films and for receiving the distinguished National Award for Choreography. Tickets start at $40. 2 and 8 p.m. showings. dancestlouis.org.

Sat., April 1, to Sun., June 25

The Saint Louis Art Museum presents Shimon Attie’s “LOST IN SPACE (AFTER HUCK)” exhibition as the museum’s 113th installment of Currents, its long-running series showcasing contemporary art. Attie’s work – on display in in Gallery 210 of the museum’s main building – includes multimedia elements with themes of “what has been lost, buried or forgotten” through visual and sonic experiences. Born in Los Angeles, Attie is a New York-based artist and a 2016-17 Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Fellow, now serving a residency at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. slam.org.

Wed., April 5

Bruce Feiler, author of The First Love Story: Adam, Eve and Us, takes part in a BOOK DISCUSSION AND PANEL presented by Meet Me Saint Louis, the Jewish Community Relations Council and the Interfaith Partnership of Greater St. Louis. Feiler’s book is a “re-imaging of history’s most famous couple” and their influence on Western culture. The panel discussion includes Dr. Bahar Bastani, member of the Interfaith Partnership’s board of directors and cabinet; Rabbi Amy Feder from Congregation Temple Israel; Dr. James Croft, outreach director of the Ethical Society of St. Louis; and Reverend Seán Charles Martin, president of Aquinas Institute of Theology. $25 general admission, $20 for students. 7 p.m. meetmestlouis.org.

Wed., April 5

Left Bank Books presents St. Louis author Ridley Pearson for a BOOK DISCUSSION of his finale to The Return series, Disney at Last, at the St. Louis County Library HQ. The event is free, but proof of purchase from Left Bank is required to enter the signing line. Pearson, a New York Times best-selling author, has written more than 50 novels that range from middle-grade adventure novels to crime and suspense. In 2013, he was admitted to the Missouri Writers Hall of Fame. Disney at Last – described as a book where the stakes are high – “leaves the Kingdom Keepers with unimaginable choices to make.” 7 p.m. 314-367-6731 or left-bank.com.

Thu., April 6, to Sat., April 22

Stray Dog Theatre will present SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET at Tower Grove Abbey. The musical, with a book by Hugh Wheeler, features music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Sweeney Todd, a barber, returns to London looking for revenge for being exiled. Along the way, Todd meets the owner of a struggling pie shop, which he helps to profit after introducing a new ingredient for its meat pies. Tickets start at $25.

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By Bryan A. Hollerbach Photos by Sarah Conroy

An exhibition at the Missouri History Museum centers on civil rights in the metro area during almost two centuries.

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istory, as a discipline, traditionally transforms the blacks and whites of today – the instant, often malignant neo-Manichaeism of the moment – into the grays of tomorrow, as illustrated by a free exhibition now at the Missouri History Museum.

African American Freedom Struggle in St. Louis.” It debuted March 11 and runs through April 15, 2018.

Gwen Moore, curator of urban landscape and community identity for the museum and content lead for the exhibition, sketches what sparked “#1 in Civil Rights.”

“In broad, general terms, the exhibition was inspired by the many courageous men and women, black and white, who had a deep and history of St. Louis had to be uncovered and that the people that made this important history had to be acknowledged and honored.

St. Louis American newspaper in 1928 and its editorial writer for the next 45 or so years.

“In many of his editorials and articles, Judge Young focused on local history and maintained on more than one occasion that St. Louis was ‘No. 1’ in civil rights.

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He based that assertion partly on the claim that St. Louis had more civil rights cases go to the Supreme Court than any other city in the nation.”

The exhibition under consideration occupies 6,000 square feet of the museum’s east special exhibition gallery, says Moore, who adds, “A lot of planning goes into an exhibition – in the case of the civil rights exhibition, four years.”

Ironically, the third edition of James Neal Primm’s Lion of the Valley (customarily considered the most authoritative general-readership history of St. Louis, from 1764 to 1980) indexes under “civil rights” absolutely no entries. In that light, characterizing the history of civil rights here as largely “unexplored and overlooked,” Moore provides an overview of the exhibition.

“We begin in 1819 with what Judge Young described as the first civil rights protest on the continent, when free blacks and their white allies demonstrated on the steps of the Old Court House in opposition to Missouri entering the Union as a slave state,” she says. “We end with the Ferguson story, with artifacts, oral histories and images.

“First and foremost, we wanted our audiences to know that St. Louis has a civil rights history and just as importantly that it was – and is – a history that had an impact on the national struggle for equal rights. Succinctly, we have a history that we can be proud of.”

Among the many features of the exhibition that should aid attendees to engage with it, Moore cites film, original artwork and visitor-feedback stations, among others.

“But the real stars of the exhibition are the intriguing stories from the freedom suits of pre-Civil War St. Louis to the desegregation of streetcars in the aftermath of the Civil War, decades before the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycotts of 1956,” she says.

“One of my favorite stories is the 1944 sit-ins at downtown department store lunch counters spearheaded by a group of black and white women. Again, these sustained sitins occurred almost 20 years before the better-known sit-ins of the 1960s.”

Elizabeth Pickard, director of interpretive programs at the museum, briefly describes another particularly intriguing feature of the exhibition.

“The ACTivists Project, which has received funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, allows us to add a living dimension to the exhibit … ,” Pickard says. “We have five talented actors who portray leaders from the 19th and 20th century.

“The ACTivists are both visiting classrooms – performing and delivering lesson plans around civil rights – and appearing daily in the gallery. This is a much larger presence for our museum theater program than we have had before, and we are excited to tell these stories through the use of theater.”

Beyond that, Moore positions the subject of “#1 in Civil Rights” in the greater sociopolitical scheme of things.

“The African-American freedom struggle is, of course, a distinctly American movement that benefited multiple groups, not just those segments of society traditionally relegated to the margins,” she says. “Additionally, it has inspired so many other struggles. For instance, the women’s movement of the 19th century emerged

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from the antislavery movement. And second-wave feminism occurring later in the 20th century was arguably spawned by women’s activism in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The movement for equal justice was inclusive, and the impact was widespread, nationally and internationally. It continues to motivate and inspire.

“At the same time, we did want to acknowledge those activists, past and present, who are in the forefront of advocating for many different constituencies. The Faces of the Movement wall, for example, features Mustafa Abdullah, a Muslim and American Civil Liberties Union organizer; Joan Suarez, a labor activist who fights for workers’ rights; and Pamela Talley, a community organizer who is focused on stabilizing her north St. Louis neighborhood. We see this section as a ‘living’ wall, and we will be inviting our visitors to nominate activists who are contributing to their communities in a variety of ways.”

Almost necessarily, given its ongoing hot-button status here and nationwide, Moore addresses the topic that temporally concludes “#1 in Civil Rights.”

“Particularly in the case of Ferguson, we purposely avoided being didactic,” Moore says. “Historians generally maintain that a certain distance is needed before you can begin to objectively assess events. What we do is present what happened in Ferguson and pose the question, ‘Is it a movement or a moment?’

“We invite people to ponder the question and come to their own conclusions about the meaning of Ferguson and how it fits, if at all, in the larger narrative.”

Regarding “#1 in Civil Rights,” readers of a certain age or of a certain sensitivity to history may hear a voice from yesterday.

That voice, across the decades, still echoes valiantly: “A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life’s roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life’s highway.”

In memory, the voice also still quivers with a passionate, barely constrained vibrato as it continues: “True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”

So spoke Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in New York City on April 4, 1967 – from the distance of almost exactly half a century.

Missouri History Museum, Lindell and DeBaliviere in Forest Park, St. Louis, 314-746-4599, mohistory.org

Linda Kennedy, one of five talented actors involved in the missouri history museum’s acTivist Project, portrays a “living history” leader from the 19th and 20th centuries in the museum’s “#1 in civil rights” exhibition.

Dr. clarence Lang photo supplied

The KeynoTe SpeaKer SpeaKS On the first two days of its latest exhibition, the Missouri History Museum welcomed Dr. Clarence Lang to serve as the special keynote lecturer to “#1 in Civil Rights.”

Lang, Dean’s Professor of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, chairs the Department of African and African-American Studies at the University of Kansas, in Lawrence.

His visit here generally springboarded from Lang’s University of Michigan Press volume Grassroots at the Gateway: Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75.

“I became interested in studying St. Louis when I was an M.A. student at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville,” Lang recalls of the inspiration for his book. “Even though my residence was in Illinois, I spent a great deal of time in St. Louis and became actively involved in a community group, the Organization for Black Struggle.

“As a result, I became interested foremost in learning more about the longer history of African-American activism in this city, particularly over the course of the 20th century. This became the focus of my M.A. thesis, then later my doctoral dissertation and, of course, then my book.”

He next reflects on the classist dualism underpinning Grassroots at the Gateway.

“As someone who came of age in the late 1980s and early 1990s,” Lang says, “I wanted to know more about the origins of a dynamic that I had witnessed in Chicago, where I grew up, St. Louis and elsewhere, which was the simultaneous expansion of a post-1960s civil rights black middle class and black working-class poor, as well as the political and social differences that these class schisms were fostering in black America.

“To be clear, my book is very much about how white racism has shaped – and continues to shape – black people’s lives, conditions and opportunities. Without taking my eye off this broader context, however, I wanted a clearer sense of how identities of class, as well as race, shaped the strategies, tactics, ideologies and even goals of black protest movements.”

Lang similarly characterizes evolving interactions among African-Americans and their experience of racial discrimination and exploitation as “not at all mutually exclusive. Increasingly, black scholars and activists alike have recognized that identities of race exist in conversation and conflict with other cross-cutting identities such as gender, class, sexuality, nationality and so forth.”

He also politely dismisses the notion that his book’s vantage could be seen as a reduction to the equivalent of “black-on-black crime”: black-on-black socioeconomics, sociopolitics or both.

“I am not at all reducing the African-American experience – in St. Louis or anywhere else – simply to the existence of conflict among black people,” Lang says. “Part of what I attempt to demonstrate in this book is that black communities are not merely reactive or reducible to encounters with the white population. At the same time, I recognize that one can never fully abstract black people from the matrix of racial oppression, either.

“My goal is to provide a deeper, more nuanced depiction of black life and the multiple ways that black people historically have worked together – or in conflict with each other – in addressing their collectively shared condition as a racially oppressed group in the United States.”

Finally, regarding racial matters in St. Louis subsequent to 1975, Lang comments: “Part of what the Black Lives Matter movement has demonstrated is that black protest movements have an obligation to confront the intertwined problem of white racism at the macro level, but also secondary forms of exclusion within black communities along the axes of class, gender, sexuality and ideology.”

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