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Mary Lou Green – whose surname seems fitting, in that she serves as executive director of Brightside St. Louis – chats with LN contributor Allison Pohle about that nonprofit’s efforts to beautify the metro area since being founded in 1982.

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TEST DRIVE Writer/photographer Ryan Scott, LN’s trusty overseer of overdrive, takes the Volvo XC40 T5 for a springtime spin and, sounding more than a bit surprised, confesses that “being behind the wheel of the XC40 just makes me happy.”

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On the cover 10 M1 Bank has the pulse on the St. Louis community at large. Promoting local charitable organizations through its #PoweredbyPurpose campaign, this financial institution is just getting started on highlighting all that is good and promising in this region.

Learn more starting on page 10. Photo by Christina Kling-Garrett.

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The Trio Landscape Feature: Brightside St. Louis

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One Look, Two Ways Feature: Zee Bee Market Destination Style

Arts & Culture Feature:

The Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis recently awarded $20,000 grants under its Artist Fellowship program to 10 area “creatives,” and LN copy editor and staff writer Bryan A. Hollerbach sketches the recipients’ individual backgrounds.

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EDITOR ‌IT’S THE PERFECT TIME OF YEAR FOR SOME SPRING CLEANING, but what if we took a broader approach to cleaning the space around us? Most folks want to take pride in the areas in which they live, but often, things like graffiti and litter can tarnish a city’s otherwise-stellar appearance. Enter Brightside St. Louis (p. 33), an organization that’s been cleaning and greening the metro area for decades. In this week’s Abode section, writer Allison Pohle walks us through how this wonderful organization got its start in 1982, all the way up through its current status as a motivated nonprofit.

Also this week, be sure to check LN digital editor and staff writer Robyn Dexter’s Style feature on Zee Bee Market (p. 40) – a fair-trade shop on South Grand that recently expanded to include a second location in Maplewood. We hope you enjoy learning more about the fair-trade movement and why owner Julio Zegarra-Ballon is so passionate about his work.

Finally, LN copy editor and staff writer Bryan A. Hollerbach profiles the 10 recipients of this year’s Regional Arts Commission Artist Fellowship program grants (p. 60). Learn all about these talented area residents and their work in this Arts & Culture feature.

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We’re Sorry: In the April within-a-magazine Abode, the story “Framing Excellence” erroneously credited the room photos to Anne Matheis Photography. The credit should instead have gone to Alise O’Brien Photography. We sincerely apologize for the error.

On April 12, students at Nipher Middle School in the Kirkwood School District celebrated Best Buddies International with an inaugural Buddy Walk. Students took part in various outdoor activities including playing flag football, walking the track and singing karaoke. The group was founded to encourage inclusivity and friendship among all students. More than 50 Nipher students also participated in the St. Louis Best Buddies Walk at Creve Coeur Park the next day.

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he name M1 Bank is a name soon to be familiar to all St. Louisans as this financial institution garners a worthy reputation both locally and nationally for being an integral part of the communities it serves. According to S&P Global Market Intelligence, M1 Bank is ranked No. 9 in performance in the state of Missouri and No. 87 in the nation among the top-performing banks under $3 billion. However, this unprecedented accomplishment for the young organization is only the beginning of its impact.

“We want to hear everyone’s story, what powers their purpose and passion,” says Stephanie BahnPoteet, executive director of marketing and community outreach. “The heart behind M1 Bank’s Powered by Purpose campaign is to use our platform to spread the word about the good local charities and organizations are doing in St. Louis.”

The financial firm involves local citizens in the selection process for which organization is worthy of the spotlight, empowering them to connect with these causes on an intimate level. As M1 Bank continues to grow, each new facility, like its Des Peres branch, is designed to host clientele as well as events.

“We have created a landmark facility to reflect our

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heritage of banking on a mission and our commitment to the community,” expresses Bahn-Poteet. “This stateof-the-art branch offers all services, including personal and business banking.”

The Des Peres branch will host this year’s #PoweredbyPurpose campaign, utilizing eco-friendly pavers in the parking lot as a stage for the outdoor event where two local organizations, as chosen by the community, will be awarded $10,000 each to support their respective missions.

Brian Owens, executive director and founder of LIFE Arts Inc., will entertain guests with performances by his students. KMOV Channel 4’s Laura Hettiger will announce her upcoming second annual Laura’s Run 4 Kids 5K and family run to support The Little Bit Foundation, which occurs on April 27 and is sponsored by M1 Bank.

“We pledged to give back 10 percent to the community directly, and we far exceeded that in 2018,” notes BahnPoteet. “We are continuing M1 Bank’s legacy of giving in 2019.” In addition, she says, the Des Peres branch will host Trees for Vets in December, with plans to give away 300 holiday trees to veterans and their families.

Future plans for the bank with a purpose include completing construction on M1’s national headquarters,

located in downtown Clayton. Two iconic buildings totaling more than 20,000 square feet will house the holding company, M1 Bancshares, and a full retail branch, as well as offer an indoor-outdoor space to host more meaningful events for the community-at-large.

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Missouri Alliance for Animal Legislation

OPEN YOUR HEART GALA Photos and story by Diane Anderson

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he Missouri Alliance for Animal Legislation recently hosted its 16th annual Open Your Heart gala at Lucas Park Grille in downtown St. Louis.

This year’s theme, “Woofstock,” gave a furry-friendly nod to the 50th anniversary of the iconic music festival Woodstock. The evening included silent and live auctions, pet sketches, tarot readings, fabulous food and beverages, legislative updates, and friends old and new. Cocktail and “groovy” attire were both welcome. All funds raised go to help the organization fight for humane legislation for animals.

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Jeff Arthur, Dr. Tara Brooks, Dr. Terri Sympson, Jonathan Andrews

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Heather Martens, Shelly Solem

This is our principal fundraiser to raise awareness and funds to help be a voice for all animals in Missouri. The alliance is grateful to all of you for your continued support!

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Todd Burchyett, Amanda Moen

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or 121 years, the Wyman Center has dedicated itself to serving youth from disadvantaged circumstances. This mission was recently on full display at the gala Together in Pursuit of Success at the Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis, as both the emcee and the keynote speaker were Wyman alumni who shared how Wyman changed their lives for the better. All of Wyman’s leadership and college persistence program teens graduated high school on time, and more than 90 percent of them enrolled in four-year colleges and universities. After cocktails, dinner and a program including a fund-a-need opportunity, guests danced the night away to the sounds of Galaxy Red.

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Kurly Taylor, Tony Rushing, James Williams, Xavier Payne

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Roshelle and Mark Scott

The most important thing is that Wyman achieves great outcomes with disadvantaged youth. It’s just remarkable what they can help these kids to achieve. So that’s one of the most inspiring things for me to work with Wyman. And we’re honored to have in St. Louis an organization that is truly recognized to be the leader in youth development. I think that that’s one thing that most people in St. Louis don’t even realize.

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n March, SouthSide Early Childhood Center welcomed guests to the Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis in that municipality’s downtown through love of children and education – both qualities the center strives to provide to children through its early childhood education and support services. The center’s annual Champions for Children Gala allowed everyone to gather and reflect on more than 130 years of caring for children – and to have fun doing so. Along with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, guests browsed “supersilent” and silent auctions, and enjoyed a wine pull, a trip raffle, a photo booth and live music before a lavish meal, a meaningful program and awards, and a rousing live auction.

This work has meaning for me because we are helping kids and families every day access high-quality early-childhood education and family-support services who would never have the opportunity to access them on their own. So our work is incredibly meaningful.

We’re making sure that families are connected and safe and thriving while their kids are getting ready to be ready for school.

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ome guests came directly from the Cardinals home opener to the Ballpark Hilton for the Open Your Heart for the Homeless gala held by Gateway180. Guests enjoyed browsing silent and live auction items, plus the incredible gift wall. After cocktails and browsing, guests sat down for a great program and performance by Viva Voce from Ladue Horton Watkins Middle School and music by Steve Ewing of The Urge. As the largest emergency shelter for women, children and families in the state of Missouri, Gateway180 serves as a temporary home to 161 people every day and, along with safe and nurturing shelter, provides case management and housing programs for families in need.

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For me, it’s an amazing chance to give back to a community, knowing that the average age of the resident there is 9 years old, and being able to put those families into housing where we know over 80 percent of them will stay in permanent housing years later. It’s a tremendous impact, and it is such a blessing to be able to help support them.

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Upcoming

GATHERINGS

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‌April 26

The Bach Society of Saint Louis’ FESTIVAL GALA at The Saint Louis Woman’s Club (bachsociety.org)

April 27

Winter Opera Saint Louis’ BIG BAND DINNER DANCE at the Saint Louis Club (winteroperastl.org)

Cornerstone Center for Early Learning’s 25th annual CELEBRATION FOR CHILDREN at Windows on Washington (cornerstonecenterstl.org)

Safe Connections’ 12th annual TOGETHER! BRUNCH at The Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis (safeconnections.org)

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No matter your starting point in life, at one local university, your limit to achieve a degree does not exist.

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When they arrived in the Midwest in the 1830s, the sisters were charged with educating the deaf, a population that, at that time, seemed most in need. According to the president of Fontbonne University, Dr. J. Michael Pressimone, a new need has arisen in the community.

“For us, [today,] the ‘dear neighbor’ is the underserved student, with academic ability, for whom the dream of a private, individually focused higher education is unattainable,” he explains.

“Fontbonne Promise was born out of that concept.”

Qualifying students for the Fontbonne Promise scholarship program (first-time Missouri freshmen with the greatest financial need) receive a loan-free financial aid package that completely covers tuition. “[Candidates] bring a level of diversity to our community that we have not seen before,” Pressimone declares. “They bring a richness to campus. They have a socioeconomic status in common that does not allow them to afford college. They have many needs, from supporting

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their families to limited transportation, but we’re trying to remove the tuition piece to make it possible for them to attend school.”

Orvin Kimbrough, CEO of Midwest BankCentre, knows firsthand the remarkable difference accessibility to higher education can make in one’s life. “Education has always been a game-changer in this country,” he states. “You want to move up the economic ladder? Education is a sure way to do it.”

Kimbrough is serving as chair to this year’s Fontbonne Prom, a scholarship gala that benefits the university and the Fontbonne Promise program. Last year’s fundraising event garnered more than $550,000, which directly benefited students and ushered 32 freshmen into the unique scholarship program.

“When I think about Fontbonne’s call to action to soar higher, it aligns 100 percent with Midwest BankCentre’s [culture], where we encourage all to dream big and rise together,” Kimbrough shares.

“At the bank, we work to empower people, enable businesses and energize neighborhoods through the strength of our financial services.

“Similarly, Fontbonne gives college-ready students who lack funding access to education, which will expand their potential,” he adds.

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“[In turn,] they will contribute to the region’s prosperity by developing their gifts and reshaping the community for the better.”

Thanks to Fontbonne’s promise to enrich the St. Louis community, brilliant young minds can finally feel limitless.

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The Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis, 100 Carondelet Plaza, 314-862-3456, f ontbonne.edu/giving/upcoming-events/fontbonne-prom The Voice veteran Tish Haynes Keys emcees this spectacular throwback event, where guests will be entertained by the Fabulous Motown Revue.

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Maryville University, returns to Powell Hall with seven celebrated and thought-provoking speakers: Jason Alexander, Zanny Minton Beddoes, Douglas Brinkley, Peter Diamandis, John Kerry, Susan Rice of State John Kerry

LICENSE TO CARE CARE TO LEARN The Coronado, 3701 Lindell Blvd., 314-650-3820 (for sponsorships), c aretolearn.org/licensetocare This May 10, you are invited to License to Care, a high-stakes evening inspired by 007. Benefiting Care to Learn, this adventure enhances the dignity and confidence of local students while promising an evening of entertainment, from casino games to VIP luxuries.

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O The 40th Anniversary ST. LOUIS STORYTELLING FESTIVAL presents: “FORGED IN THE STARS” with Jay O’Callahan A rare, intimate performance piece commissioned by NASA to tell its story through the eyes of its astronauts, engineers, and employees.

FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 7 pm Kranzberg Arts Center, 501 N. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, MO Tix: $15, available at Metrotix

“STORYTELLING AND CREATIVITY” Workshop A hands-on workshop to make historical stories come alive.

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n a recent spring morning, as I visited Bowood Farms for a specialorder tree, I spied a gorgeous new book on the counter called Gardenlust: A Botanical Tour of the World’s Best New Gardens.

Written by my longtime friend and colleague Christopher Woods, it elegantly catalogs 50 new gardens on six continents, each designed and built in the last 20 years. Having had the pleasure of participating in design reviews for several of these beautiful creations and seeing many of them under construction myself, I was thrilled to browse images of them maturing into teenagers – especially with an entirely fresh, diverse and contemporary expression of plant architecture and appreciation in them.

With a keen eye for detail and design, coupled with the professional knowledge to understand and explain the plant palettes and contexts, Woods uses his powerful combination of plant fever and wanderlust to describe a new generation of gardens in this thoughtful, elegant anthology. He interprets these new gardens, ranging from public parks and botanical institutions to private residential gardens and corporate landscapes, with a connoisseur’s appreciation.

Woods engages with the plants and people associated with each new design, interweaving themes of beauty, nature, ethnobotany, native plants, urbanization and sustainability into an insightful narrative.

He illustrates his stories by creating a modern take on plants and their placement, as he describes a new sense of style for landscapes in this millennium.

Gardenlust clearly identifies the universality of deep connections between people and plants around the world, while showcasing the love of gardens and gardening that unites our cultures through a common human heritage. “It is often said that we should have a relationship with nature, as if we could pick nature up in a bar or via an online dating service,” Woods writes. “We can’t have a relationship with it: we are it.”

In that vein, Woods will soon be visiting the Greek island of Crete to photograph the spring wildflower bloom for his next volume, on the natural landscapes of the world. His goal, Woods tells me, involves translating his love of plants into stories that will inspire others to cherish and preserve them in a rapidly changing world.

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Washington University Orthopedics is pleased to welcome Laura L. Meyers, MD, to our team of pediatric and adolescent orthopedic specialists.

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With nearly 40 years dedicated to “cleaning and greening” the metro area, this local nonprofit has a bright-looking future.

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n the spring of 1982, reportedly 100,000 area residents took to the streets for a mission known as Operation Brightside.

Armed with trash bags and determination, the throngs of volunteers had just one goal: clean things up. Their work responded to a survey published by the now-defunct St. Louis Globe-Democrat, in which citizens said the No. 1 problem facing the area was its lack of cleanliness.

“This is more than just a spring cleanup,” the city’s then-mayor, Vincent Schoemehl, said at the time. “This will be a continuing effort to clean up the city.”

And continue it has. Nearly four decades later, the operation is now a nonprofit organization known as Brightside St. Louis and has grown to be the area’s most comprehensive cleaning and greening initiative. Brightside aims to improve the quality of life in St. Louis through everything from cleaning up neighborhoods and removing graffiti to planting native flowers and promoting recycling programs. In 2018, volunteers invested more than 20,000 hours in the organization’s initiatives.

“Our volunteers run the gamut,” says Mary Lou Green, Brightside’s executive director. “[He or she] could be someone who is the president of the neighborhood association, all the way down to a lady who lives on the block who wants to see that trash gone. It’s really cool because it’s one of the things that people of all ages can be involved in.”

Blitz cleanup, North Newstead

Plant sale at St. Louis Urban Gardening Symposium; this year’s event will take place June 1

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volunteers getting garden ready for spring

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coreopsis and false indigo

You can have a positive impact on your own environment by selecting the right plants for the right place.

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Those volunteer hours are spread across multiple efforts. For many years, the organization divided the city into eight regions and gave each region an assigned cleanup date as part of what is known as Project Blitz. But now, Brightside lets residents decide when to schedule their neighborhood cleanups and provides the tools and trash bags for the volunteers.

Brightside receives roughly half of its funding from a federal grant through the Department of Housing and Urban Development and St. Louis Community Development Administration, and then the other half through donations from individuals, companies and foundations. In the past, Brightside used some federal funding to support Project Mainstreet, a program that gave teenagers an opportunity to get job skills and clean up along major thoroughfares.

The project ended after about 25 years because that source of funding ran out, Green says. “We can always use more funding,” she says with a laugh. “And we always put it to good use.”

Brightside employs just five full-time staffers to manage its various programs, all in an effort to make a mark on the community – although sometimes, the organization is noticed for the marks it takes away. That is, Brightside operates a graffiti-removal program, in which trained staffers remove graffiti from vandalized homes and businesses at no cost to the owners. To date, the organization has removed graffiti from more than 150,000 vandalized homes, businesses and other structures in St. Louis.

The organization also empowers residents through its education programs. Last year, the three-person recycling team held more than 100 educational events in the community to help residents learn about best practices.

“Brightside has such a strong network of activated residents who want to keep their neighborhood clean,” says Elysia Musumeci, Brightside’s sustainability education and outreach coordinator. “We came up with a strategic program to let people know what they can and can’t recycle, and people have been very responsive.”

St. Louisans have also responded well to the growth opportunities in the organization’s Demonstration Garden, a working mini ecosystem created to help educate St. Louisans on native plants and sustainable practices. In 2011, Brightside transformed a rock-filled lot on the corner of Kingshighway Boulevard and Vandeventer Avenue that had sat empty for more than two decades into what is now the garden’s colorful and vibrant community space. It’s not too big, Musumeci says, so your best walking shoes aren’t required. But the garden is open year-round and is tended by volunteers and master gardeners who cultivate native plants.

Signage throughout the garden helps residents learn more about the plants, but the organization also holds workshops about native plants and their habitats.

“Anyone can come to this garden and learn about sustainable practices and learn about Missouri native plants [he or she] might put in [his or her] own yard or in a neighborhood garden,” Green says. “We have a lot of people, especially in a city with so much paved area like ours, who totally understand the reality of the urban heat island effect. You can have a positive impact on your own environment by selecting the right plants for the right place.”

For glades – dry areas with rocky soil – Brightside recommends rattlesnake master and Missouri coneflower, among others. For prairies – open, sunny areas – the organization suggests purple blazing star and butterfly milkweed, to name a few.

Also, this May 18, Brightside suggests participating in the Flowers for Downtown event, in which residents plant flowers along Market Street and Tucker Boulevard around St. Louis’ city hall. Volunteers can register on Brightside’s website.

Residents from all over the metro area who are looking for a touch of color can purchase daffodil and tulip bulbs that come straight from Holland. Brightside bulbs are available for purchase from July to September and are available for pickup or delivery at planting time in early October. In addition to the Brightside Red tulips and Carlton daffodils, Brightside offers an exclusive Midwest Mix of daffodils, selected by the Greater St. Louis Daffodil Society, for their outstanding performance in our region, with proceeds helping to support Brightside’s various initiatives.

“People come back every year to get our bulbs,” Green says. “We hear lots of stories from people who get compliments from their neighbors when the bulbs are in bloom.”

With each bloom comes an opportunity to keep looking on the bright side for many years to come.

Brightside St. Louis, 4646 Shenandoah Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-4646, brightsidestl.org

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ringing fair-trade products to area residents is Zee Bee Market owner Julio Zegarra-Ballon’s passion. After a promotion brought him to St. Louis, he learned about Partners for Just Trade, a Fair Trade Federation member local organization that was working exclusively with Peruvian artists. Although Zegarra-Ballon had been working in corporate America for two decades, after discovering Partners for Just Trade, he found himself increasingly “falling out of love” with the ways of the two large-scale corporations he had been working for.

Born in Peru himself, Zegarra-Ballon felt an immediate connection with the group and expressed interest in supporting its mission by volunteering. It was then that he was introduced to the fair-trade movement. “Fair trade” is an institutional arrangement designed to help producers in developing countries achieve better trading conditions. Members of the fair-trade movement advocate the payment of fair wages and provide safe working conditions to the producers, as well as improved social and environmental standards.

“I had been working for two large corporations that did little to ensure the

producers received a fair wage for their work,” Zegarra-Ballon says. “I worked hard to make money for a limited few and to create value for shareholders, but producers along the supply chain did not share in that prosperity and often were exploited.”

While continuing his day job, Zegarra-Ballon began to assist Partners for Just Trade on weekends, often helping sell products at events. As he was selling, he found himself telling the products’ stories to prospective customers, explaining not only the beauty behind the products themselves but also the artisans who handcrafted them.

“One day, I came home and told my wife, ‘This is what I want to do,’” Zegarra-Ballon says.

His wife supported his vision, and Zegarra-Ballon set off to get his MBA at the University of Missouri-St. Louis to learn how he could venture out on his own.

During this time, Zegarra-Ballon decided to take $1,000 out of savings and used it to purchase unique, handmade and fair-trade gift-type products – half from Partners for Just Trade and half from another fair-trade organization, Global Crafts. He set up a table at a local event in June 2012, and by the end of the day, he had sold nearly half of the products.

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“I was elated when I got home,” he says. “I decided to reinvest the money in ordering more products.”

For the next two years, Zegarra-Ballon continued to sell fair-trade products on nights and weekends – all while finishing his MBA and maintaining his day job.

Increasingly, though, customers were asking him where his shop was.

“The results spoke for themselves,” Zegarra-Ballon says. “The challenge was there, but I could feel in my heart that it would be a good thing.”

After he put a business plan together and found the perfect space, his Zee Bee Market opened on South Grand in November 2014.

Less than a year later, Zegarra-Ballon quit his full-time job and dedicated all his time and effort to telling the stories behind the eclectic variety of goods he carries.

Although the South Grand community embraced Zee Bee Market and ZegarraBallon’s efforts, he regularly had customers note that they wished for a location farther west. In early 2017, Zegarra-Ballon saw the possibilities of the storefront located on Manchester Road between The Benevolent King and Kakao, and after much work, he opened the doors to the second Zee Bee Market in April 2018.

The space is filled with charming, colorful pieces from artisans all over the world, and Zegarra-Ballon has a story to tell for each piece.

“Everything you see here is handcrafted by artisans around the world,” he says.

“We’re currently sourcing from 33 different countries. I find myself welcoming customers, and as they pick something up and begin to compliment it, I say, ‘Oh, by the way, here’s the story behind it.’ It’s a celebration of the beautiful work of human hands.”

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He cites parts of the world like India and Cambodia, where certain villages have become known as meccas of leather-making, block printing for fabrications and recycling materials to be turned into accessories. But these artisans are facing the challenge of a modern society that’s focused on automated production.

“Their livelihoods are potentially at risk,” Zegarra-Ballon says. “Fair trade is targeting specifically communities that are borderline losing this incredible art form and encouraging them to stay in their villages.”

Zee Bee Market’s products are widespanning, from pillows made from recycled saris to wallets made from inner tubes to exquisite ceramic pieces to wall hooks made from bicycle chains. There is a large selection of organic and fair-trade-certified coffee, chocolate, tea and other treats. The shop also carries a variety of clothing and dresses, along with bags and satchels – all benefiting the people who meticulously handcrafted them.

Over the course of the past year, ZegarraBallon’s been getting the word out about his new space, regularly partnering with local nonprofits to donate 15 percent of sales to those groups’ missions.

“I’m so delighted to be able to give the customer in the U.S. a new opportunity to open their wallet and choose to purchase something that has a positive impact,” Zegarra-Ballon says. “We spend money all the time by the trillions of dollars in this country, but it’s a tiny percent that is actually sourced ethically. We have an opportunity as consumers to be able to support the livelihoods of people around the world by the products we purchase.”

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n both her life and career, St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson has seen incredible triumph, daunting challenges and unimaginable tragedy.

One of her triumphs came in 2017, when she became the first female mayor of St. Louis. Her latest challenge is the Better Together campaign, a plan that would dramatically change all governments in the area. If it succeeds, the plan would make Krewson the last mayor of the City of St. Louis as we know it.

Her corner office in city hall downtown is stately. Krewson, in her trademark pearls, stands from her massive desk to shake my hand before we sit at a marble table beneath walls covered with murals of St. Louis history. It’s an impressive setting.

“This office is majestic, and every day when I walk in here, I think, ‘Wow, this is something,’” she says. “It’s an incredible honor to be the mayor of St. Louis.”

Long before her life in government, Krewson’s journey started with her birth in a small farming town near Davenport, Iowa, in 1953. Her family moved often for her father’s job, so the girl started high school in Fairfield, Illinois, but graduated in Moberly, Missouri. The oldest of four children, she remembers how her father spent time with the family before heading back on the road for his job. “He would always help me with my math homework on Sunday nights,” Krewson recalls. “I think that’s why I became an accountant. He always thought I was good at math.”

Krewson earned degrees from Truman State University in Kirksville (then known as Northeast Missouri State University) and the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and forged a career as a certified public accountant and corporate chief financial officer.

She married architect Jeffrey Krewson, and they had two children.

Then, in March 1995, when their children were just 5 and 2, the unthinkable happened. As the Krewsons’ car pulled up in front of their house in St. Louis’ Central West End neighborhood, two gunmen attempted a carjacking. The carjackers fired a shotgun into the car and ran away. Krewson and the children survived – but her husband was fatally wounded.

A very public funeral followed as many area residents grieved for the family after the senseless violence. The killers were caught and sentenced to prison for life.

Krewson, for her part, had little choice but to go on. “I just put one foot in front of the other every day,” she reflects. “If you have a 2- and a 5-year-old, you have to change diapers and cook meals no matter what just happened.”

Instead of withdrawing into sorrow, Krewson started on a new, challenging path and never backed down, a mission to turn tragedy into triumph. Two years later, she was elected to St. Louis’ aldermanic board, and 10 years after that, she was sworn in as the city’s 46th mayor. She’s focused on public safety, education and the economy, and not surprisingly, she’s also a strong advocate for better gun control.

I tell her I think it’s incredible to have endured what she’s gone through and be where she is today. “I don’t think about it like that,” Krewson responds. “The tragedy of my husband being murdered in front of our house was very public, but there are a lot of people who have had tragedies. People get ill and people die, so I’m not special in that regard.”

Krewson says there have been lots of special moments for her as mayor, but by far, she says the best part of her life is her children, now grown and doing well: “There’ve been so many good days. People ask me how am I doing, and I say I’m doing great, we’re doing great as a city and a region, and we’re going to do even better.”

The elephant in the room, of course, is the Better Together plan. If approved by voters statewide, it would merge the independent municipality of St. Louis with all 88 municipalities and other areas of St. Louis County into one single new city with a combined population of nearly 1.3 million. The merged municipality would instantly

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People ask me how am I doing, and I say I’m doing great, we’re doing great as a city and a region, and we’re going to do even better. – LYDA KREWSON become one of the top 10 largest cities in the nation.

So far, the plan has inspired both great optimism and equal disdain. But Krewson has already faced so many challenges in her life that I can’t imagine she’ll back down from this one.

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‌ONCE UPON A TIME, Melissa Carmean decided she wanted to foster a senior dog or one that had special needs of some sort. She and her family had previously fostered dogs when they were living in Texas, and when they moved to Missouri about a year ago, she began following Stray Rescue of St. Louis on Facebook.

“I got addicted to their posts,” she says.

Earlier this year, Carmean saw posts about a 7-year-old dog named Whippet who came to Stray Rescue blind in both eyes. He had glaucoma, and his eyes were rupturing. He had surgery to have

them removed and went to a foster home to recover, since the shelter was confusing for the blind pup. Carmean saw his posts and “couldn’t stop thinking about him.”

“When he went up for adoption, I put in an application right away,” she says.

Whippet’s foster family was enthusiastic about the Carmeans coming to meet him, so Carmean and her husband went to pay him a visit and see if he’d be a good fit for their family.

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After a brief discussion with her husband, Carmean filed with Stray Rescue to officially adopt Whippet. They brought the pup home the same day.

The Carmeans have had Whippet only for a few weeks, but he’s fitting in perfectly with their family. Whippet’s getting used to having a dog brother and sister, along with a sassy cat sister.

Carmean says that aside from his blindness, the Golden Retriever-“ish” pup is “as healthy as can be.”

“He loves to go for walks,” she says.

“He just wants to be wherever you are.”

One little bit of adjustment the Carmeans have faced with Whippet is talking to him constantly to let him know where they are in the house.

“You can’t leave a room without telling him you’re leaving the room, because he won’t know where you went,” Carmean says. “You just have to keep talking to him so he can follow you. His sense of hearing is great.”

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Overall, though, Carmean says the biggest adaptation is just being mindful of Whippet’s presence because he’s so quiet and low-maintenance.

The Carmeans have incorporated him into their daily routine with ease, though, allowing Whippet to come along on car rides to pick up their daughter from school.

“Seeing him with his head out the window is so cute because he loves the feel of the wind on his face,” Carmean says. “He can’t tell what’s going on, but the expression on his face is so sweet.”

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Among a bevy of worthy challengers, the Volvo XC40 rises to the top of a crowded field.

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et’s be honest: Volvo doesn’t design cars with drivers like me in mind. Volvo ads aren’t full of performance statistics, there are no commercials of burnouts and tire smoke, and if you ever see a Volvo in motorsports, it’s a curiosity. Volvo always has been a company known for safety. And although safety’s not my highest concern, this now marks the third Volvo I’ve reviewed in recent years, and I continue to be pleasantly surprised each time.

With the upscale, decidedly luxurious XC90 and S90, it was their cloudlike seats that stole the show. More than that, though, was the fresh, airy Scandinavian feel and just enough performance to satisfy. With its all-new XC40, Volvo is cutting a new path, although some of the cloth is still familiar. Aimed at affluent and aspirational younger buyers, the smallest SUV in Volvo’s line faces a bevy of worthy challengers. And though its unique sense of style will certainly get noticed, there’s a lot more under the hood worthy of praise.

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space in the rear, as well, although seat backs are a bit upright. Other surprises hide in the cargo area, including clever ways to divide the space and a really smart way to store the cargo cover instead of that dusty corner in your garage.

Hidden beneath that fresh exterior is an all-new platform Volvo is calling “compact modular architecture,” or CMA. As I found, the CMA platform is quite capable, but not as advanced as the Scalable Product Architecture unibody platform found under higher-end Volvo XC90s and XC60s. One primary difference is suspension layouts: In the XC40, a four-link with steel arms and coils is employed, as opposed to five-link with composite leaf spring. What that means on the road is a bit more of a bouncy feel and not quite the same level of competence in the twisty bits. Perhaps the firmer, more taught sporty R-Design model would be a good choice for those wanting a bit more of a catlike character.

But the XC40 was never meant to be a back-road burner. Much like the engine, its suspension is just satisfying enough to not be a negative.

As mentioned, Volvo focuses on safety. For some, that’s a big buying point; I happen to think the driver is the most important component of safety. But it’s nonetheless good to know that the XC40 received the highest crash-test ratings.

Elsewhere, you find all the other class safety features – blind-spot monitoring, cross-traffic alerting and so forth – but maybe some of these features are tuned a bit aggressively. On three occasions, the vehicle decided to buzz my seat and steering wheel, and apply brakes because of stationary cars in the left-turn lane.

The first time caused a momentary blood-pressure spike and, after that, just an eye roll. And Volvo’s implementation of semiautonomous driving here works, though it was a bit too choppy to ever cut loose.

Taking all these factors into consideration, I’m asking myself again why I liked the XC40 so much – enough that I would put it at the top of its extremely crowded field, up there with the Mazda CX-5 Signature. I think it all comes back to the feel and its unique sense of style. Enjoyment and happiness are synonymous, and being behind the wheel of the XC40 just makes me happy. Although I would certainly appreciate a bit more driving excitement, that wasn’t my parting thought as I handed the keys back. Volvo never had adrenaline junkies like me in mind when it put together its entire line, but somehow the company managed to produce a stable full of very pleasant surprises anyway.

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aked, a new restaurant and bar in St. Louis’ Soulard neighborhood, offers a decidedly sophisticated approach to a night on the town.

The venture, which opened in February, showcases new American cuisine and a beverage program featuring wine, whiskey and more.

Oaked comes from area residents and proprietors Venessa and Christopher Schwarz along with Anne and John Cochran.

“There weren’t any grown-up places to go grab a drink nearby,” says Venessa Schwarz. “Our concept was really about using all of the spaces in the building to create an experience that included fine dining with a music-based lounge, a dynamic bar and a New Orleans-style patio.”

With roughly 170 seats across two stories and two patios, Oaked fills the space previously occupied

by Lynch Street Tavern. The first floor features a

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By Mabel Suen speakeasy-inspired bar and lounge; the second holds the main dining area. Venessa Schwarz and Anne Cochran designed the rooms, outfitting them with handpicked chandeliers, emerald-green velvet curtains and plush leather seats to lend a formal, intimate feel.

Stephan Ledbetter, who previously worked for St. Louis’ Gamlin Restaurant Group, serves as Oaked’s executive chef, with Christopher Horton as sous-chef.

Chef Carl Hazel, currently with The Shaved Duck in St. Louis’ Tower Grove East neighborhood, also spends time on the line during weekend services. Prior to opening, the team developed the menu over 10 sevencourse dinners, during which 70 items were tested on a variety of guests.

“I would say it’s contemporary cuisine that pulls from many cultures,” Ledbetter says. “The menu will rotate regularly depending on what’s available from farmers, and everything is made in-house, including our pastas.

We have substantial gluten-free and vegan selections.”

Favorite items that made the cut for the debut food menu include a butternut squash soup that Venessa Schwarz describes as “a bowl of sunshine.”

The vibrant bowl comes topped with sage, crème fraîche, chili oil and pecans. Additional highlights are Devilish Eggs with squash, parsnip and beet; scallops with risotto, grapefruit, chimichurri and brown butter; and fettuccine with basil, tomato, burrata, balsamic and pine nut.

Carlos Rivas, a former bar manager at Gamlin Whiskey House in St. Louis’ Central West End neighborhood, developed the beverage program.

Oaked guests can choose from a growing wine list that currently includes roughly 101 selections, all available by the glass. More than 80 whiskeys also await, alongside two different cocktail lists featuring classics and inhouse crafted options.

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Dreamgirls

“The menu’s about letting the ingredients really speak for themselves rather than being masked by other things,” Rivas says. “We’re keeping things simple and just doing it well. Everything’s fresh, made by hand and well-balanced.”

Highlights from the cocktail list include a blood orange Old-Fashioned with Jefferson’s, Solerno Blood Orange liqueur, Luxardo Sour Cherry syrup and Dolin vermouth. Another popular pick, the Paloma Rosada, consists of El Mayor Reposado agave tequila, fresh lime, agave nectar and grapefruit. Oaked makes the dreamiest spot to cozy up under a chandelier with a cocktail – or a three-course meal – before catching Dreamgirls from Stray Dog Theatre.

“We’re just excited to share Oaked as an experience,” Venessa Schwarz says. “You can come here and have one of the best meals in St. Louis and some of the best wines and whiskeys. There’s not a spot to sit that isn’t beautiful, and the service is top-notch.”

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‌Story: As The Dreamettes, Chicago singers Effie White and her two BFFs, Deena Jones and Lorrell Robinson, are competing in the early 1960s in the famous “Amateur Night” at Harlem’s renowned Apollo Theater.

They’re good, but car salesman and aspiring producer Curtis Taylor Jr. bribes a judge to make sure they lose. He wants to bring them under his wing and convinces them to back up Jimmy “Thunder” Early, a star rhythm and blues and soul singer. Effie’s songwriting brother, C.C., has penned a new tune called “Cadillac Car,” which Curtis thinks can help Jimmy cross over into pop.

Jimmy and The Dreamettes meet huge approval as they tour the country with “Cadillac Car.” Unfortunately, as is the unfair custom at the time, a white group records a cover and overshadows what Jimmy and the trio have accomplished. Curtis vows to resort to payola for DJs to get his tunes played in the future, a familiar practice in the business, which pays off.

Looking to the next opportunity, Curtis decides The Dreamettes should break from Jimmy to form a separate act. Personally, although he’s involved with plump Effie (while Lorrell is having an affair with the married Jimmy), that doesn’t deter Curtis from relegating her to backup, moving the slender, photogenic Deena to lead in the trio now known as The Dreams.

Curtis pushes The Dreams further into pop, where they become huge stars. Because Effie balks about her reduced role, Curtis finally replaces her with Michelle Morris in a Las Vegas performance.

As the new version of The Dreams continues to ride the charts, Deena entreats Curtis, now her husband, to let her leave the trio and focus on her fledgling movie career. Jimmy, meanwhile, feels frustrated with his own fading career, yearning to return to R&B and soul, and finally being fired by Curtis for insubordination.

And Effie accepts her former manager Marty’s help in resuscitating her own career.

Can Deena free herself from Curtis’ Svengali influence? Will Effie return to her former glory? Can Jimmy renew himself by returning to his areas of vocal strength, as well as straighten out his personal life?

And will Curtis’ empire crumble or continue to change the music world?

Highlights: Through two acts and 2½ hours, director Justin Been leads an energetic, lively ensemble in Stray Dog Theatre’s triumphant rendition of this thinly veiled story of The Supremes and Detroit’s Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr. Other Info: Dreamgirls opened on Broadway just before Christmas 1981 and closed in 1985 after more than 1,500 performances. Director/choreographer Michael Bennett, book writer and lyricist Tom Eyen and composer Henry Krieger went to great lengths to disavow any biography of Gordy and The Supremes.

By Mark Bretz

So let’s just say that it’s a remarkable coincidence how much Effie, Deena, Lorrell and Michelle match Florence Ballard, Diana Ross, Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong, respectively – and that Curtis just happens to bring to mind Gordy at the dawn of Motown. Further, Jimmy even has the same first name as James Brown.

Yes, pure happenstance.

With a sprawling cast, Been makes shrewd use of the aisles at Tower Grove Abbey, as well as a stage that protrudes well into the audience at its center, thanks to Josh Smith’s ambitious scenic design. Smith situates the band on the upper level of both sides of the set, where music director/pianist Jennifer Buchheit and a tight nonet enliven the theater with the infectious Dreamgirls score.

Smith’s design includes a back curtain that lets the set serve as both the front of the action and back stage, depending on the scene, something that lighting designer Tyler Duenow amplifies with precise illumination. Julian King’s varied costumes befit the era, both on the stage and off, complemented by Shanice Mac’s makeup and wig design.

Vocal standouts include Ebony Easter as Effie, belting out the show’s signature ballad, “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going,” as well as the smooth tones of Eleanor Humphrey as Deena, Tateonna Thompson as Lorrell and Diamon Lester as Michelle.

Omega Jones captures both the swagger and the desperation of Jimmy in a fine performance, accentuated by his smooth moves and velvet voice.

Abraham Shaw shows the calculated drive of Curtis, while Don McClendon brings wisdom and compassion to the part of Marty, and Marshall Jennings plays the earnest, well-meaning C.C. Dreamgirls depicts the troubled times as well as the musical evolution of the ’60s in America in Stray Dog’s faithful interpretation.

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Company: Stray Dog Theatre Venue: Tower Grove Abbey, 2336 Tennessee Ave. Dates: April 19 and (sold out) 20 Tickets: $25 to $30; contact 314-865-1995 or straydogtheatre.org Rating: A 4 on a scale of 1-to-5 LadueNews.com | April 19, 2019 57

Around Town

By Robyn Dexter

Tue., April 23, to Sun., May 5

The Fabulous Fox Theatre presents MISS SAIGON at the St. Louis landmark. Miss Saigon tells the story of a young Vietnamese woman named Kim, who is orphaned by war and forced to work in a bar run by a notorious character known as “the Engineer.” There she meets and falls in love with an American GI named Chris, but they are torn apart by the fall of Saigon. For three years, Kim goes on an epic journey of survival to find her way back to Chris, who has no idea he’s fathered a son. This new production features stunning spectacle and a sensational cast of 42 performing the soaring score, including Broadway hits like “The Heat Is On in Saigon,” “The Movie in My Mind,” “Last Night of the World” and “American Dream.” Tickets start at $30. Various times. fabulousfox.com.

Fri., April 26

University City High School hosts award-winning young-adult author JASON REYNOLDS in its auditorium. Reynolds is joined in conversation with Kameel Stanley, the host of St. Louis Public Radio’s award-winning podcast, We Live Here. The presentation is being held in partnership with St. Louis Public Radio and the Novel Neighbor.

Reynolds is a New York Times best-selling author, a Newbery Award honoree, a Printz Award honoree, a National Book Award honoree, a Kirkus Award winner, a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award winner and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors. Free, but reservations are required to attend.

7 p.m. eventbrite.com.

‌Mon., April 22

The St. Louis County Library Foundation presents HELEN ELLIS for a discussion about her new essay collection, Southern Lady Code, at the library’s Ladue headquarters. The best-selling author of American Housewife returns with a fiercely funny collection of essays on marriage and manners, ghosts, gunshots, gynecology and the Calgonscented, onion-dipped, monogrammed art of living as a Southern lady. Free. 7 p.m. slcl.org.

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Wed., April 24

The St. Louis County Library Foundation presents NELL FREUDENBERGER for a discussion about her new novel, Lost and Wanted, at library’s Ladue HQ. The best-selling author of The Newlyweds, Freudenberger presents an emotionally engaging, suspenseful new novel told in the voice of a renowned physicist, an exploration of female friendship, romantic love and parenthood – bonds that show their power in surprising ways. Free.

7 p.m. slcl.org.

Fri., April 26, to Sun., April 28

Sat., April 27

Teams from FIRST ROBOTICS visit The Magic House, St. Louis Children’s Museum to showcase their amazing robots in action for Robotics Day. Kids can get inspired by some of the coolest inventors in town, as well as get a chance to test-drive some robots and learn more about the program. Free with museum admission. 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. magichouse.org.

U City in Bloom hosts its annual PLANT SALE at the Heman Park Community Center. It begins with an opening-night party and plant sale from 5 to 7 p.m. April 26 and includes wine, cheese hors d’oeuvres and the first pick of the thousands of locally grown perennial and annual plants for sale.

The event’s plant and gardening experts, including professional staff, are on hand to answer questions, describe individual species and help customers choose the plants that are best suited for their particular gardens. $25 donation suggested. 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday. ucityinbloom.org.

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Ten Aesthetic Grandees – and 20 Grand Each

By Bryan A. Hollerbach | Photos courtesy of Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis

Generous fellowships from one of st. louis’ preeminent arts-related orGanizations benefit 10 area artists whose works run a vast Gamut.

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ate in January, the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis named the 10 recipients of individual $20,000 grants in its annual Artist Fellowship program for 2019.

Now in its sixth consecutive year, the fellowship program has disbursed $1.2 million to date to aid area artists across all forms to further their careers independent of any specific project, “providing the crucial gift of time to study, reflect, experiment, explore and create,” according to the commission’s website, which provides in-depth bios of the individual recipients.

Among those 10 winners, selected from a total of 176 applicants after an in-depth review, Tom Brady specializes in exploring “sculpture as stage and performance as art” and in seeking “that transformative moment during a performance where art wasn’t static but dynamic.” Brady has performed in New York and Chicago, as well as locally at COCA, Laumeier Sculpture Park and other venues.

As he fills various roles and functions with his installations, Brady “sculpts light and shadow to create magical images and reflections on the state of being.” Beyond his own work, he serves as artistic and executive director of the St. Louis not-for-profit ANNONYArts and has spent more than two decades working with students, including conducting an art/tech workshop for elementary and middle school students at The Alternative School.

In addition to teaching speech and theater at Harris-Stowe State University, Gregory S. Carr has written such plays as the award-winning Johnnie Taylor Is Gone and A Colored Funeral, as well as Tinderbox, focusing on the East St. Louis race riots of 1917.

Similarly, Carr’s most recent play, Live From Ferguson!, dramatizes events leading to the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown and subsequent unrest in Ferguson.

At present, Carr is developing a script about the Civil War-era African-American 62nd and 65th U.S. Colored Infantry and performing a one-man show focused on James Milton Turner, the first African-American in this nation’s diplomatic corps.

Jacqui Germain has received various fellowships and published When the Ghosts Come Ashore, a 2016 volume from Button Poetry. Her poems have appeared or soon will appear in

various publications and anthologies. Germain also has performed and competed on stages nationwide and, in 2016, coached the slam poetry team from Washington University in St. Louis to the semifinals of the Association of College Unions International’s annual slam invitational.

Her freelance essays and articles have appeared in various print and pixel outlets. As a journalist, Germain “explores a number of different critical conversations and offers fresh, original reporting and commentary on relevant political and cultural dialogues, grassroots organizing and more …”

As a poet, Cheeraz Gormon has performed on stages nationally and internationally, and published or otherwise disseminated work on HuffPost and elsewhere.

She also serves as a member of St. Louis-based Screwed Arts Collective, a founding committee member of the St. Louis Brick City Poetry Festival, the founder and co-executive director of the nonprofit Sonic Arts United and the founder and executive director of Sibling Support Network, a nonprofit to aid those who have lost brothers and sisters to violent crime.

Last year alone, Gormon was named the Saint Louis Visionary Awards’ Outstanding Working Artist Honoree, was recognized by one local media outlet as one of St. Louis’ 50 most inspiring women and made her acting debut with The St. Louis Black Repertory.

Margaret Keller “works in related series using installation, drawing, digital media, painting, sculpture and printmaking” to explore interrelations among nature, today’s culture and technology.

Keller’s current series involves “surveillance, natural disasters and our experience of nature and the landscape in this digital age.”

Keller has exhibited in galleries, museums and collections locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. Notably, Riverbend, her 105-foot-long aluminum representation of the navigable Missouri River, was installed at the Gateway Arch National Park.

From 1993 to 2018, Keller taught drawing, painting, design and art history full time as a professor at St. Louis Community College-Meramec. She also served as a visiting associate professor at Washington University in St. Louis and in Florence, Italy.

Beyond performing throughout the area with his quartet and the Jazz St. Louis Big Band, Harvey E.A. Lockhart has served as an educator in both public and private sectors, expressing a longstanding passion for teaching, performing and mentoring.

Since 2010, he’s also served as band director at north St. Louis County’s Riverview Gardens High School. Lockhart otherwise founded the HEAL Center for the Arts, a multidisciplinary nonprofit devoted to area urban communities; as that center’s executive and artistic director, he shepherds its educational programs for middle and high school students. Lockhart likewise founded and directs The Sheldon Concert

Hall & Art Galleries’ North County Big Band, a collaborative big band of the most talented, dedicated students from several area high schools.

Tellingly, in 2017, Lockhart received the St. Louis Arts Educator of the Year Award from the Arts and Education Council of Greater St. Louis.

William Morris has worked for three decades in video and has roots in St. Louis’ North Side. Clayton’s Bruno David Gallery represents his work, which has otherwise appeared locally at Citygarden, the Missouri History Museum, the Saint Louis Art Museum and the Whitaker Saint Louis International Film Festival.

Internationally, Morris’ videos have been shown in Paris, as well as in Turkey and South Korea. His most recent work graces the vibrant new Angad Arts Hotel in St. Louis’ Grand Center Arts District.

In works exhibited nationally and internationally, Tim Portlock combines special-effects software and visual conventions of 19th-century American painting to simulate modern cityscapes. In the past few years, his large-format print images have centered on imagined landscapes populated with the empty buildings surrounding his home, as well as developments in post-boom/bust Las Vegas and elsewhere.

Other of his works involve video projections onto buildings’ exteriors, yielding temporary public art that incorporates new media and murals’ visual language while engaging with architecture and urban spaces. Portlock also has received an arts fellowship from Philadelphia’s distinguished Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.

Over time, Dan Rubright has embraced everything from jazz, “world” and classical to pop, rock and experimental music. His latest project, aptly named The Dan Rubright Group, features original “retro-modern” jazz compositions; it released its first album last November. Rubright also leads and composes the music for the Wire Pilots, an eclectic group that bridges jazz, Brazilian, Latin and rock.

For many years, Rubright has variously worked as an in-demand guitarist for The Fabulous Fox Theatre, The Muny, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, among others, and has written five film scores.

Audrey Nicole Simes directs performances interpenetrating dance, theater, music, projection and installation art. Simes – who co-directs FloSTL, a local emerging dance theater company/artist collective – has had independent works and performances showcased at a mind-boggling number of venues here.

Simes’ work also has been exhibited with multiple dance companies locally, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch named her its 2016 Arts and Theater Rising Star for Tributary, which focused on the nuclear-waste contamination at Coldwater Creek in north St. Louis.

Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis, 6128 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-863-5811, racstl.org

Tom Brady

Gregory S. Carr

Jacqui Germain

Cheeraz Gormon

Margaret Keller

Harvey E.A. Lockhart

William Morris

Tim Portlock

Dan Rubright

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Power Washing•Painting•Staining INTERIORS • EXTERIORS • CONCRETE CEDAR HOMES • DECKS & FENCES

Tim Trog 636.394.0013 www.countyhousewashing.com

PAINTING

ROOFING

ASTON-PARKER PAINTING Interior/Exterior Painting Wallpaper Removal. Insured.

35yrs Exp. Free Estimates.

Call 314-766-2952 or 314-766-2962 alstonparker@hotmail.com

ROOFING

TUCKPOINTING

TUCKPOINTING

WANTED

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March Winds, April Showers... Enjoy The May Flowers We Will Be...

JC PAINTS Interior/Exterior Painting, Reliable, Clean, Reasonable & Insured.

Call John for a Free Estimate!

314-703-2794 jcpaints@sbcglobal.net INTERIOR PAINTING & REMODELING Finish carpentry, drywall, tile and floor work. 25yrs exp. Call Kent for free estimates; 314-398-2898 kenthallowell@yahoo.com

Roofing • Siding • Gutters • Tuckpointing Ellisville, MO 63021

636 391-1117 Saint Peters, MO 63376

636 926-2015

contactus@aroofing.net www.aroofing.net

PET SERVICES

Yucko's Your Poop Scoop 'n Service Free Estimates - No Contracts 314-770-1500 www.yuckos.com

SERVICES Got Trash/Junk?

Caseyville, IL 62232

618 343-1117 Illinois License: 104.010598

TREES

BARTEL’S ESTATE GALLERY

Who you going to call?

Estate Jewelry Specialists

Mr. 314-713-HAUL

PLUMBING

(314-713-4285) For House Clean-outs, Hoarding Clean-outs, Yard Waste, Appliance Removal & More.

Quality Since 1916 A Name You Can Trust New Work • Repair • Remodeling Water Heaters • Sewer & Drain Backflow Device Testing 314-962-0956

ROOFING US Army Engineers Take on any roof! Slate, Clay Tile & Shingles. Also Soffit, Fascia, Gutter Repairs and Gutter Cleaning. Over 30yrs Exp. Fully Insured. No house too tall & No job too small 220th ENGINEER'S, LLC 314-220-3638

BRIAN'S HAULING

Tree Service Professionals Trimming, Deadwooding, Reduction, Removals, Stump Grinding, Year Round Service, Insured.

Call Michael Baumann for a Free Estimate & Property Inspection.

636.375.2812 You'll be glad you called!

"U Name It & We Haul It" 7 Days a Week - Same Day Appliances, Brush, Clean Outs, Demo, Bsmts & Garage, Etc. Call Brian @ 314-740-1659 McGreevy Piano Tuning Bill McGreevy Piano Technician & Guild Associate Member 314-335-9177 wrmcgreevy@gmail.com POWERWASHING WINDOW CLEANING •Excellent Rates •Insured •Impeccable Ref's •Free Est's.

Diligent, LLC 314-803-3865 diligentllc.biz

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A+ BBB

Trees Trimmed & Removed

GILLS TREE SERVICE • Stone Retaining Walls • Stump Grinding • Fully Insured

(636) 274-1378 GillsTrees.com

TUCKPOINTING

TUCKPOINTING MASSEY TUCKPOINTING Tuckpointing, Chimney & Brick Repair, Caulking, Chimney Sweeping & Flue Re-lining.

BBB A+ & 2013 Torch Award $50 off $500+ 314-200-9488 or masseytpm@gmail.com for bid

M. Galati, LLC Tuckpointing Spot or Entire Home

Color Match Experts Power Washing Silicon Waterproofing Owner on site to insure CUSTOMER SATISFACTION

WANTED

No Job Too Small • 35yrs Exp. Senior Discount • Fully Insured

SERIOUS COLLECTOR & HISTORIAN

314-365-4241

Will Pay Top $ for WWII Military Relic's.

Swords, Daggers, Metals, Badges, Hats, Helmets, Flags and Guns.

Call 314-249-5369

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MIRELLI TUCKPOINTING LLC

WINDOWS

Family Owned and Operated In Service Since 1991 Complete houses, spotpointing with color match, chimney repair/rebuilds, brick/stone repair, foundation repair.

BBB TORCH AWARD RECIPIENT. SUPER SERVICE AWARD '05-'17.

FREE ESTIMATES 314-645-1387

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M&P Window Washing & Gutter Cleaning • Gutter Cleaning & Minor Repair • Window Cleaning • Reasonable • Free Est. • Dependable • Insured • Ref's • 34yrs Exp. • Angie's List Paul, 314-805-6102 Mark, 314-805-7367

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9945 Old Chatham Ladue $3,695,000

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8956 Moydalgan Road Ladue $1,975,000 New Price

8 Edgewood Road Ladue $2,800,000 Sold

11420 Clayton Road Frontenac $565,000

5 Edgewood Road Ladue

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10 Larkdale Drive Ladue $2,495,000

136 N. Brentwood Clayton $3,595,000 Whether you’re buying or selling a luxury home, choose The Ryan Tradition.

If you would like to discuss your significant property needs, please contact us. We look forward to the opportunity to work with you.

John Ryan | 314.941.0572 | jo ryan@coldwellbanker.com TheRyanTRadiTion.com

Coldwell Banker Gundaker - Ladue 314.993.8000

Š2017 NRT Missouri LLC. All Rights Reserved. Coldwell Banker Gundaker fully supports the principles of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Opportunity Act. Operated by a subsidiary of NRT LLC. Coldwell Banker, the Coldwell Banker logo, Coldwell Banker Global Luxury and the Coldwell Banker Global Luxury logo are service marks registered or pending registrations owned by Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. Real estate agents affiliated with Coldwell Banker Gundaker are independent contractor sales associates and are not employees of Coldwell Banker Gundaker.

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