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The LUXURY COLLECTION of

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501 South Warson | Ladue | $850,000

24 Overbrook Drive

508 Heron Court

9915 Litzsinger

30 Bellerive Country Club

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Saint Albans | $2,750,000

Ladue | $2,500,000

Town & Country | $1,590,000

9890 Old Warson Road Ladue | $1,499,000

9 Washington Terrace

Wenwood Farm Winery

1700 Gratree Lane

1154 Greystone Manor Parkway

115 Pointer Lane

St Louis City | $1,450,000

Bland | $1,200,000

Wentzville | $1,170,000

Chesterfield | $1,149,000

Ladue | $947,000

Bommarito Estate Almond Tree Winery

803 South Warson Road

3473 Whitsetts Fork Road

1529 Lookout Mountain Drive

Ladue | $898,000

Wildwood | $855,000

Wildwood | $849,900

17669 Lasiandra Drive

12349 Borcherding

2634 Wynncrest Falls Drive

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1516 Shepard Road

2121 Quail Glen Drive

Des Peres | $799,000

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New Haven | $920,000

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2017 LN LIL’ ONE LN stalwart Denise Kruse, with photographer Sabrine Rhodes, introduces Devin Blattner, who topped the magazine’s online poll to become this year’s Lil’ One and who here shows what togs chic (soon-to-be) 3-year-olds are sporting this spring.

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3. 524 High Hampton · Ladue enchanting one and a half story colonial! stunning garden room, overlooks the 1.8-acre lot. living and family rooms are enhanced by two fireplaces. sunny kitchen is adjacent to the dining room. a master suite, four bedrooms, two baths, and a partially finished lower level finish this home. $975,000

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EDITOR ‌BECAUSE MY HUSBAND AND I LOVE SPENDING TIME TOGETHER in the kitchen, I’m always in search of new recipes for us to try out together. Although I have some favorite go-to websites for recipes, I somehow always end up on Pinterest – scrolling endlessly through delicious concoctions, pinning recipes that we would likely enjoy creating and consuming.

Although we’re fairly good about attempting some of these Pinterest finds, there are many items that unfortunately get pinned and left behind. Ashley Obradovits and Carolyn Connolly, creators of Pinned in the Lou, saw a similar trend, but for DIY crafts.

“We find out that most people put things on their Pinterest board, but never get around to making them because it takes all day to go buy supplies, and it’s also more expensive if you get everything in one place,” Obradovits shares in this week’s Abode feature.

Starting on p. 28, LN contributing writer Brittany Nay delves into the inspiration behind Pinned in the Lou and also shares what a crafting night with the company entails. We hope that you not only enjoy this story but also enjoy a night with friends, creating, laughing and saving those left-behind pins.

All the best,

Editor’s Corner The word around town

Join us at the Ladue News Charity Awards on June 16 at the Palladium Saint Louis to honor and celebrate nine local charities and nonprofits in St. Louis. Presented by Centene Charitable Foundation, the event also marks the announcement of our 2017 award winners. Only a limited number of tickets are available, and a portion of every ticket sold in advance will be donated to your choice of one of the honored charities. Visit laduenews.com to learn more and to purchase tickets.

Congrats to Nicole Salaber, a graduate of John Burroughs School, who was recently awarded a 2017 fellowship from FASPE Business, an innovative international program in leadership and business ethics. Salaber is currently studying at Harvard Business School.

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New LIstINgs 12925 TaunTon courT, Town & Country. Additions and renovations have created a masterpiece featuring all of today’s luxury amenities. Beautiful pool and covered patio. $1,250,000 3 WEndovEr drivE, Ladue. Stunning 4 bedroom home offers updated elegance. With a stunning 2-story addition, this gracious home boasts over 4,000 square feet of living space. $1,180,000 43 HigHgaTE road, Olivette. 4 bedroom, 2 and a half bath home is a spacious 3,383 feet of comfortable living and is situated on one of the largest square lots in Chevy Chase. $699,000 5 romany park, Olivette. Home has great curb appeal and is a real show stopper inside! Open feel with vaulted ceilings, pretty hardwood floors, some new carpet. $675,000 908 pHEasanT Woods drivE, Manchester. Gracious customized 2-story offers expanded customized floor plan on larger lot in Parkway South Schools! 4 bedrooms and 3.5 baths. $436,900 127 pEEkE avEnuE, Kirkwood. Architectural detailing thoughtfully mixed with updated design in this 3 bedroom and 2 bath home. Kirkwood charm at its best! $399,000 33 oak Hill drivE, Ellisville. Location, size and convenience!

This beautiful 2-story home on a park-like, over 1/2 acres private lot welcomes you with crisp landscaping. $340,000 508 cannonbury drivE, Webster Groves. Gorgeous south Webster home with new roof, new windows, hardwood floors, and appliances. Kitchen is open and ready for entertaining. $239,900 7449 mElrosE, University City. Meticulous 2 bed and 1.5 bath home. Fresh, neutral paint, gleaming hardwood floors, and a delightful sun room. Move-in ready. $141,900 11709 casa grandE, uniT f, St. Louis. Cozy 2 bedroom condo with one updated full bath. Master bedrooms has walkin closet with shelving. Loaded with updates! $82,500

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171 norTH bEmisTon avEnuE, Clayton.

11 brEnTmoor park, Clayton.

11 uppEr WHiTmoor drivE, Weldon Spring.

1042 Wings road, St. Albans.

8 fordycE lanE, Ladue.

21 uppEr laduE road, Ladue.

8956 moydalgan road, Ladue.

241 lindEn avEnuE, Clayton.

3784 doc sargEnT road, Pacific. bluffs of sT. albans, St. Albans.

111 grand mEridiEn forEsT cT., Wildwood.

2 fordycE lanE, Ladue.

20 fordycE lanE, Ladue.

25 randElay drivE, Ladue.

12 carrsWold drivE, Clayton.

10270 kinsElla, Ladue.

22 clErmonT lanE, Ladue.

801 South Skinker, 17-B, St. Louis.

6 applE TrEE lanE, Ladue.

37 fair oaks, Ladue.

10183 Winding ridgE road, Ladue.

5105 lindEll boulEvard, CWE. 32 WEsTmorEland placE, CWE. 44 porTland drivE, Frontenac.

555 dEEr vallEy courT, St. Albans.

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1328 liTzsingEr Woods, Ladue.

37 porTland placE, CWE. 12033 robyn park drivE, Westwood.

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213 Troon courT, St. Albans.

810 souTH Warson road, Ladue.

14790 sugarWood Trail, Chesterfield.

9052 clayTon road, Tbb, Richmond Heights.

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7039 pErsHing avEnuE, University City.

$374,900

8 WHippoorWill courT, defiance.

$365,000

8 glEn crEEk lanE, Ladue.

$999,900

255 fairWay grEEn, O’Fallon.

$329,750

16656 annas Way, chesterfield.

$999,000

8715 WasHingTon, University City.

$319,000

318 EasT sWon avEnuE, Webster Groves.

$998,000

7318 mElrosE, University City.

$139,000

1309 EaglEWinds courT, Chesterfield.

$974,900

1172 ursula avEnuE, University City.

$119,900

13517 WEsTon park drivE, Town & Country.

$972,000

1540 gErard park, Hazelwood.

$107,500

535 TrEgaron placE, Frontenac.

$969,900

1401 WindgaTE Way lanE, Chesterfield.

$949,000

4 Winding brook lanE, Ladue.

$949,000

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34 counTrysidE lanE, Frontenac.

$899,000

4218 WEsT pinE avEnuE, uniT a1, cwe.

362 mErloT lanE, St. Albans.

$875,000

6615 alamo avEnuE, uniT 1b, Clayton.

$483,900

12437 grandviEW lakE drivE, Sunset Hills.

$807,000

4950 lindEll boulEvard, uniT 5W, CWE.

$427,000

31 conWay closE, Ladue.

$799,000

1121 locusT sTrEET, #202, St. Louis.

$370,000

369 mErloT lanE, St. Albans.

$775,000

816 souTH HanlEy road, uniT 7c, Clayton.

$349,000

9 WilloW Hill, Ladue.

$749,000

710 souTH HanlEy road, uniT 9c, Clayton.

$299,000

4312 napa viEW lanE, St. Charles.

$749,000

815 WEsTWood, uniT 1n, Clayton.

$225,000

8693 WEsT kingsbury avEnuE, University City. $679,000 1 norTH covingTon mEadoW, Olivette.

$569,000

1136 WasHingTon avEnuE, uniT 210, St. Louis. $149,900

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12692 sprucE pond drivE, Town & Country.

$650,000

736 sT. albans spring road, St. Albans.

$649,000

1654 gardEn vallEy drivE, Wildwood.

$629,000

63 TrEnT drivE, Ladue.

$1,765,000

48 HanlEy doWns, Richmond Heights.

$599,000

1055 Wings road, St. Albans.

$1,550,000 $1,250,000

346 pEbblE vallEy, Town and Country.

$560,000

121 norTH brEnTWood Tbb, Brentwood.

3609 bassETT Woods drivE, Pacific.

$549,000

1 Tbb campTon aT villagE viEW, St. Albans.

$479,900

40 algonquin Wood placE, Glendale.

$509,900

1 Tbb auburn aT villagE viEW, St. Albans.

$426,900

3926 bouquET road, Pacific.

$509,000

9052 clayTon road, Richmond Heights.

$425,000

4437 mcpHErson avEnuE, CWE.

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512 pHEasanT run, St. Albans.

$375,000

17415 privaTE vallEy lanE, Chesterfield.

$499,900

1133 Wings road, St. Albans.

$329,900

11540 sandHursT drivE, creve coeur.

$499,000

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$329,900

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$489,900

41 loT #41 mErloT lanE road, St. Albans.

12 JacquElinE knoll courT, St. Louis.

$459,900

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$395,000

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$60,000

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30 loT #30 mErloT lanE road, St. Albans.

$55,000

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he eighth annual Archbishop’s Gala, which benefits the Today and Tomorrow Educational Foundation, recently took place at The Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis. The foundation puts scholarship dollars and families together to create the opportunity for St. Louis children in great need to attend the schools of their choice. Founded in 1991 by a group of concerned local corporate and civic leaders, it has grown into the nation’s fourth-largest scholarship foundation. Since its inception, the foundation has raised more than $70 million for tuition assistance in the form of grants and scholarships for children attending private and parochial elementary schools. Serving as keynote speaker at the event was Archbishop Robert J. Carlson. The honored guest speaker was David N. Farr, who received the Sister Mary Ann Eckhoff Award. Emceeing was KMOX radio broadcaster Debbie Monterrey.

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araquad presented the 2017 Shine the Light Awards on April 4 at The RitzCarlton, St. Louis. Attendees enjoyed a special cocktail hour followed by a dinner and awards ceremony. Billed as a “job creation machine for adults with intellectual disabilities,” SammySoap, a specialty store in Kirkwood, was recognized for its hiring practices and commitment to wage equality for people with disabilities. A dedication to creating accessible exhibits for people with disabilities earned the Missouri History Museum an award. This annual event “shines the light” on St. Louis-area businesses, organizations and individuals actively supporting disability rights, promoting equality and inclusion, and making our community more accessible for people with disabilities. Founded in 1970, Paraquad is the leading disability services provider in the St. Louis region. One of the oldest Centers for Independent Living in the country, Paraquad seeks to empower people with disabilities to increase their independence through choice and opportunity; among its key focuses numbers making St. Louis more accessible for all people by advocating, building awareness and delivering comprehensive services.

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ateway180 recently hosted its eighth annual Open Your Heart for the Homeless Gala, themed “Light Up the Night,” in The Grand Hall at Union Station. Guests “lit up the night” while enjoying fine dining, cocktails and bidding on unique auction items and live art. They also were dazzled by exciting live entertainment. Co-chairing the event were John and Margie Simon. Rene Knott, KSDK-TV sports anchor, served as the gala’s auctioneer, and emceeing the event was Alexandra Corey, co-anchor of KSDK’s Today in St. Louis.

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This gala celebrates and supports individuals who need help in the community. We provide shelter and housing and help families to get employed and lead productive lives. It is my honor to serve as executive director.

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t The Pageant in the Delmar Loop, Metro Theater Company recently held Toy Fest, a unique family-friendly gala benefiting St. Louis theater for young audiences. Guests young and old were greeted by staff, actors and volunteers in playful costumes. Children enjoyed several play areas and activities for them, and Kinetic Tapestry and Circus Flora performed. Adults, meanwhile, enjoyed cocktails and game-themed hors d’oeuvres, and some even joined the fun in Etch A Sketch family photos and face-painting. The children also led a toy parade into the pit area, where young and old enjoyed the music of Vote for Pedro. Also at hand was a dancing dinosaur!

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What this group does is bring positive creative exploration of world issues in a kid-friendly way, and they have done so much for theater for children in this community. And now they’re starting to get more involved in theater for younger children, which is a whole other opening to sensory awareness for our little ones. So it’s just an engaging, wonderful organization.

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Opera Theatre of Saint Louis hosts its 2017 SPRING GALA at The Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis.

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In remembrance of Dan Esser, September 10, 1959 - April 17, 2017.

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hen C&M Interiors first came on this project, the Chesterfield clients weren’t sure exactly what they wanted.

Channing Glover and Maria Lesko, co-owners of the design firm, helped the young family with a few renditions of a design plan, in which they decided to gut their kitchen, master bath and kids’ bathroom.

With two kids and a third on the way, the clients wanted a kitchen that was bright and airy. They had purchased the house a few years ago and wanted to update the space and make it more functional.

“Some of the appliances weren’t functional in the way they were placed,” Lesko says. “You want to be able to move from the sink to the oven to the fridge, and that triangle [of movement] wasn’t there before.”

The duo’s design included taking out upper cabinets and switching to open shelving, allowing the space to feel larger. They also made the island bigger since the clients wanted a space for two stools under the overhang. “[The clients] were very open to any of our suggestions,” Glover says. “We were able to come up with creative ways to make it feel more open, and I think we were successful.”

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St. Louis-based Pinned in the Lou hosts creative craft and wine workshops.

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o-it-yourself doormats, monogrammed wreaths, handpainted wine glasses and bath bombs are just some of the crafts you’ll find posted on Pinterest and detailed in home and style blogs across the web these days.

In the same vein, local company Pinned in the Lou is giving St. Louisans a chance to create their own unique, upscale crafts, all while enjoying wine and time with friends.

Pinned in the Lou was founded last fall by Ashley Obradovits and Carolyn Connolly, who met while working together in the local fashion industry for Nordstrom. The creative co-workers bonded over their shared love of crafting and wanted to offer an alternative to the typical happy hour. “At our workshops, you spend less money and go home with a fun craft that you are proud to display in your home,” Obradovits says.

The workshops, which are held for the public at Roar in Webster Groves or hosted as private parties

in crafters’ homes, offer socializing over wine and snacks while providing materials and guides to make a high-end home good or stylish accessory, such as decorative coasters; flower pots; and seasonal centerpieces, wreaths and doormats. “We keep the crafts trendy and current so you can put them in your home that season,” Connolly says.

Obradovits and Connolly are self-described “creative hoarders,” obsessed with hosting happy hours and creating crafts found on social media sites and do-it-yourself blogs. The pair call the workshops the perfect marriage of these two hobbies, explaining that they take the idea-hunting, craft-shopping and mess out of crafters’ hands by providing a current craft theme, materials, wine and snacks in a venue outside their home. “We find out that most people put things on their Pinterest board but never get around to making them because it takes all day to go buy supplies, and it’s also more expensive if you get everything in one place,” Obradovits says. It’s a task they happily do for the crafters, Connolly adds. “We

love to shop at stores like Hobby Lobby and Jo-Ann – they know our names; we’re the crazy craft ladies,” she says, noting that the typical class fee of $45 per person covers the full cost of the craft, wine, snacks and venue.

To design each workshop, Obradovits and Connolly research sites such as Pinterest and Instagram to identify a high-end craft, similar to an upscale item that can be found on a trendy Etsy webpage or at a luxury home goods store like Pottery Barn, and make it themselves. “We do a trial run because we need to have something everyone can do in a short period of time,” Obradovits explains, adding that the pair also is open to crafters’ ideas for themes. “For a bridal shower, they might say they want to create items that will be at their wedding, like centerpieces or wine glasses,” Connolly says.

The crafty, after-hours social events are a huge hit for girls’ nights out, corporate groups, birthday parties, and bridal and baby showers, Obradovits says. The attendees get to enjoy spending quality

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Workshops Mother’s Day DIy PaInteD Planters WorkshoP When: Where:

6 to 9 p.m., Thursday, May 18 Roar, 8150 Big Bend Blvd., Webster Groves Details: Paint, marble and decoupage three planters; open to the public – perfect to come with Mom as a Mother’s Day gift take Me out to the BallgaMe! When: Where:

11 a.m. to 1 p.m., June 11 Roar, 8150 Big Bend Blvd., Webster Groves Details: Craft a baseball-inspired doormat; open to the public MonograM Door Wreath When: Where:

6 to 8 p.m., July 20 Roar, 8150 Big Bend Blvd., Webster Groves Details: Create a personalized door wreath; open to the public

time with family, making new friends and becoming more creative, Connolly adds. “We have a lot of repeat crafters who bring a different person every time, [and] then that person will bring a new person the next time – so we’re spreading the craft juice across St. Louis,” she says. “And people tell us they’re doing more creative things in their everyday lives, from moving around their furniture to getting more craft ideas from Pinterest. A lot of people don’t realize they’re so creative.”

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guests, while in-home parties have no minimum requirement. Pinned in the Lou has hosted a range of groups, from a bachelorette party of 12 up to a 30-person corporate event.

Upcoming workshops, which are all open to the public and slated to be held at Roar, include coastermaking with the Professional Women’s Alliance on May 18; a make-your-own monogrammed door wreath event on June 11; and a create-your-own baseballinspired doormat session on July 20. Pinned in the Lou also has summer workshops tentatively planned

for Aug. 3 and Sept. 7, with craft projects for those dates still in the works.

Obradovits and Connolly love to see attendees connecting and learning at the workshops. “When people are crafting things, they’re so happy to be there, and they’re connecting,” Obradovits says, with Connolly adding: “We want people to learn something, and once they know how to do that craft, they can create it again at home.”

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oon to be 3 years old, Devin Blattner is this year’s Ladue News Lil’ One winner! Every year, we encourage proud parents to enter photos of their little cuties, ages 2 to 4, and then readers vote in our online poll. After that, the winner is determined at random among the top five vote-getters.

This year’s winner, Devin, is a fiery redhead who loves to play outside any chance she gets – especially if bubbles are involved. She’s a huge St. Louis Blues fan and has gone to five games so far this year with her mom and dad, and she hopes to be able to make it to a playoff game this season. She’s even scored a puck thrown to her by goalie Carter Hutton after pregame warmups, which she plays with at home with her Blues hockey sticks.

Devin is an affectionate kiddo – abundant in cuddles, hugs and kisses – and loves to tell her family she loves them. She’s a happy girl with a heart of gold who also loves sharing any chance she gets – peppered with the occasional “threenager” tantrum, her mom, Denise, tells us.

She enjoys outings to The Magic House, St. Louis Children’s Museum and playgrounds on her days with Grandma and Papa; feeding Fishy, her pet fish; and sharing a Shakeology shake with Mommy. Her favorite food is mac ’n’ cheese.

She loves the movies Moana and Trolls, often rocking out to both soundtracks with singalongs and dance parties.

Devin will turn 3 at the end of this month and is excited about helping Mommy make her Elena of Avalor cake for her party.

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HEALTHY APPETITE

Crispy Shoestring Fries With Lemon-Fennel Salt – and Bubbles

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handful of foods are wonderful on their own, but become exceptional when paired with a liquid counterpart – tacos and margaritas, for example, or steak and red wine. You see where I’m going with this.

For me, fries and bubbles top the list of such pairings. Sure, both can be – and often are – consumed alone, but when consumed together, they provide much greater comfort. There’s something special about pairing crispy, crunchy, salty savoriness with effervescence; fries and bubbles fuel a primal desire to consume fat and salt while embracing just the right amount of sophistication.

I also find this pairing makes me feel less guilty about eating so many fries.

Something about this pair makes everything balance. Of course, this notion isn’t based on science or anything, but I urge you to try the pairing. It’s at once basic and celebratory – familiar and fancy.

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Sherrie Castellano is a health coach, photographer and private chef based in St. Louis. She writes and photographs the seasonally inspired vegetarian and gluten-free blog With Food + Love.

She has contributed work to Driftless Magazine, Vegetarian Times, Go Gluten-Free Magazine, Food52 and Urban Outfitters, among others. You can find her hanging with her aviationenthusiast husband, sipping Earl Grey tea, green juice and/or bourbon.

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Peel potatoes, then slice into shoestrings using mandolin.

2 russet potatoes

¼ cup fennel fronds, divided

2 Tbsp olive oil

2 glasses bubbling rosé,

2 Tbsp coarse sea salt

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zest from 1 lemon

Toss shoestrings in olive oil, and spread evenly on baking sheets.

Meanwhile, in a mortar and pestle, grind salt, lemon zest and half of fennel fronds.

Bake for 20 minutes or until crispy and golden-brown, flipping halfway through. | To Serve | Sprinkle with lemon-fennel salt and remaining fennel fronds, and enjoy hot, right out of oven, with favorite bubbles.

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Happily Ever After

Sammy,Iris

AND THE EVANS FAMILY

By Robyn Dexter

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five kittens suffering from severe viral eye infections was dropped off at Open Door Animal Sanctuary. Since viral infections can’t be cured, all but one of the kittens lost at least one eye. Iris, though, lost both of her eyes; her brother Sammy was the only one to retain full sight.

Open Door Animal Sanctuary had a post on its Facebook page about the kittens, and they caught the attention of Gina Evans, who regularly peruses the facility’s adoptable animals.

“I’ve always known about [Open Door],” she says.

“They do great work, and when we were looking to adopt our puppy last summer, that’s where we went.”

When Evans saw Iris on the page, she knew she wanted to bring the blind kitty home. She found out Iris was in a foster home with Sammy, who was “her seeing-eye buddy,” and knew her family needed to adopt them both.

Gina’s husband, Frank, says they were initially a bit worried about Iris navigating the stairs in their twostory home.

“Their main spot where they stay is upstairs, but Sammy manages to wiggle his way downstairs for most of the day,” Frank says.

The stairs haven’t stopped Iris, though. Gina says the kitten will sit at the top of the stairs and listen to her surroundings. She navigates with ease, climbs couches and gets on top of the sink.

“It’s really pretty incredible,” Gina says. “She sees beautifully without her sight.”

The brother and sister are a tightknit pair and often get into trouble together. Gina says Iris is prone to toe-biting – her way of getting attention. The kitten has to be shut in another room while the litter box is being cleaned because she loves to play and will grab at the scooper.

“Sometimes you can hear her up there flailing around [in the litter box],” Frank says.

Sammy, on the other hand, loves hugs and “will ask

for them,” Gina says with a laugh. “If you don’t pet him, he’ll paw at you until you do.”

The Evans family has only had the kittens for a few months and said they were only 2 months old when they adopted them from Open Door. The Evans’ two daughters, Gwen and Grace, love playing with the kittens, and Frank calls the girls “a big help” in taking care of the boisterous kittens.

“I just love having animals in the house,” Gina says.

“They make it feel like home.”

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Each yEar, 10 womEn arE rEcognizEd for thEir voluntEEr Efforts in thE st. louis-arEa community.

ext week, 10 inspiring women will be honored as the 2017 Women of Achievement. The awards “recognize and honor the achievement of women who, through their volunteer efforts, have demonstrated their dedication and commitment to improving the quality of life in the St. Louis community,” according to the organization’s website. The women will be recognized at an awards luncheon at 11:45 a.m., Tuesday, May 16, at The RitzCarlton, St. Louis. Details and tickets are available at woastl.org.

When Claire Applewhite volunteered in 2009 to judge “The Big Write,” a statewide creative writing competition for fourth- through sixth-grade students, she quickly became disillusioned. “So often, an entry with the strongest ‘voice’ was disqualified in the first round due to improper formatting, grammar or punctuation,” she says. Her frustration became the impetus for the program called Voices of Excellence.

With a small budget and several enthusiastic volunteers, Applewhite launched Voices of Excellence in 2011. The two-part program improves oral and written literacy by teaching students how to write a short essay and develop public speaking skills. The program culminates in a student competition in which three winners are named at each grade level from Grades 6 through 8 and present their winning

Claire applewhite: Educational Enrichment

“We always say, ‘Children are our future,’ and, ‘Children are so resilient’ – those statements are true but have to be more than just phrases or sayings,” Christine Buck says. “Children have a better future when we help nurture them, and kids are resilient because they receive guidance and love.”

Many local children also are more resilient because of the causes championed by Buck, who’s been volunteering to improve children’s lives since the mid-1980s.

Buck may be best known in St. Louis for her almost fourdecade career as a news anchor, reporter and talk show host for KPLR-TV. Her work as host for the televised Children’s Miracle Network ignited her passion for helping children and led to a variety of volunteer roles over the years.

essays at an award ceremony at the Missouri Athletic Club.

“One of the most cathartic experiences, on a personal level, was when I greeted the father of a first-place winner at the awards luncheon,” Applewhite says. “His eyes glowed with pride while he explained to me that he told his boss that he would need an extra hour for lunch because his son was receiving a trophy. It was kind of an epiphany for me, because in that moment, I realized the far-reaching implications of ‘winning.’

Once a person has known success, [he or she] will never again be content with giving anything less than their best.”

Applewhite is a published author who continues her involvement in a number of organizations, including the Missouri Writers’ Guild, Mystery Writers of America, St. Louis Metropolitan Press Club and St. Louis Medical Society Alliance. She has received numerous awards and honors for her volunteer efforts.

“I did a story on Annie’s Hope (a local bereavement center for kids) and then volunteered to help with their fundraiser,” Buck recalls. “One little boy couldn’t let go of the quilt sewn together with photos and other memories of his dad. He tried to tell me how it helped him but realized, in that moment, how much he was suffering. He was getting in touch with his feelings, which was the goal. That little boy stays with me.”

Buck helped develop the Girls’ Club at Mathews-Dickey Boys’ and Girls’ Club and has volunteered with Kids in the Middle, Lift for Life Academy and The BackStoppers. Her favorite current volunteer job is babysitting her 1-year-old granddaughter.

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At her day job, Adrienne Davis is impressive. Serving as William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law and vice provost at Washington University in St. Louis, Davis is “renowned for her scholarship and teaching on gender and race relations; theories of justice and reparations; feminist legal theory; and law and popular culture,” according to the university’s website.

Yet Davis was chosen as a 2017 Woman of Achievement for her volunteer work not in law, but in the arts. Davis mentors young artists and serves on a number of arts-related boards, including those of Laumeier Sculpture Park, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and december, a literary magazine. For three years, she also acted as president of the Saint Louis Art Museum

board of trustees and is currently secretary to the board of commissioners.

By convening and moderating panels and discussions on diversity and the arts and through mentoring young people of color about collecting, curating and administering arts institutions, Davis is helping develop a pipeline of diverse, powerful future artists and arts supporters.

A founding member of the relaunched St. Louis Visionary Awards for Women in the Arts, Davis is also deeply committed to seeing women develop leadership roles within arts administration and beyond.

Adrienne dAvis: Arts Advocacy

Elected officials in Jefferson City and Washington know Marlene Hammerman. In her 35 years of volunteering for the National Council of Jewish Women-St. Louis Section, Hammerman has engaged legislators on issues relating to reproductive justice, domestic violence, gun violence protection, immigration reform, voting rights, trafficking, LGBT rights, health care and separation of religion and state.

“We can’t take our rights for granted, we must never become complacent, and being involved in the political process is vital to keeping the rights we now enjoy,” Hammerman says. However, she does more than just advocate: She immerses herself in the issues she cares about, developing and assisting with issuesspecific programs.

For example, three years ago, Hammerman established Project Renewal through the NCJW, which pairs volunteers with women who are recovering from domestic violence,

homelessness and addiction. The program teaches skills including financial literacy, résumé building, interviewing skills, meal planning on a budget and dressing for a job interview. Every participant also receives a voucher to shop for professional clothing at the NCJW’s Resale Shop.

Hammerman is also ensuring that her advocacy efforts will continue by training new volunteers. “It can be quite intimidating to speak up to state and national legislators,” she says. “I hope to take some of the ‘scary’ out of it. I tell new advocates to speak from the heart, know their issues, know when to agree to disagree and to never burn bridges. I love to train advocates as we take the bus to Jefferson City and then listen to them on the way home after they’ve had their first experience of speaking up. Their feelings of empowerment are amazing!”

MArlene HAMMerMAn: Social Justice

It all started in 2001 with a little boy in an oversize, worn leather jacket.

Rosemary Hanley, helping a friend with a community-service coat drive, was delivering 170 coats to Eliot School, a nowshuttered elementary school in the Hyde Park neighborhood of St. Louis with, at the time, 250 students. Hanley recalls standing in freezing weather, noticing the blight around the school and waiting to be allowed in when a small boy appeared in the tattered coat. He told her his father had given him his coat to wear that day.

As Hanley helped distribute coats inside the school, the little boy came through the line. “I gave him a navy blue coat, zipped him up and put up the hood,” Hanley says. “He just smiled and said how happy his dad would be that he’d be warm now. I couldn’t get that out of my mind.”

roseMAry HAnley: Youth Services

Margaret Hopkins says that picking her favorite volunteer project over the years is “as difficult as asking me which one of my children is my favorite.”

Since 2000, Hopkins has been dedicated to making Alton, Illinois, a better place to live, work and visit through numerous programs that she says “are driven by people, projects and ideas that inspire me, ones that stir my imagination, maybe something that will possibly make an impact or imprint – and hopefully the result will provide a lasting investment for that project and the community.”

However, when pressed, Hopkins highlights her 11 years of participation in the national Wreaths Across America organization at the Alton National Cemetery. “I’m filled with joy and pride at the sight of young children and area veterans working together as they lay wreaths on the 560 headstones,” she says. “Two years ago, I was brought to tears as I witnessed my 90-year-old father participating and had the

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The teacher who had requested the coats for Eliot School told Hanley that her students had other needs, and Hanley began gathering items and delivering them on a regular basis. When the teacher moved to another city school and continued to request items for her students, Hanley’s volunteer service expanded as she enlisted friends to help.

In 2006, Hanley’s efforts were formalized as The Little Bit Foundation, a nonprofit that coordinates delivery of goods and services for 27 St. Louis-area schools serving more than 7,000 students. “We’re part of the school community, making sure the children’s needs are met,” she says. Food, hygiene items, clothing, health care and behavioral health services are all provided.

“We connect the dots with the child in the center,” Hanley notes. “The children of St. Louis have amazing potential, and they deserve the opportunity to reach that potential.”

honor of introducing him with all the other WWII veterans in attendance.”

Another longtime project was the restoration of the Lucy Haskell Playhouse, a 131-year-old Queen Anne-style children’s playhouse in Alton, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. “In 2014, during a fundraiser to benefit the exterior restoration of the playhouse, KSDK-TV covered our efforts,” Hopkins says. “As a result, we were able to make connections with a descendent of the Haskell family [whom] we were unaware of.”

Hopkins also helped initiate Vintage Voices, a living history tour that benefits the Alton Little Theater; organized a team of block captains to light 1,500 Christmas Eve luminaries along historic Henry Street; and has served on several boards, including the Alton YWCA and the Lynne F. Solon Foundation.

MArgAret HopKins: Community Betterment

Recently, on a bright January afternoon, Kathy Lambert beamed at the audience as she recounted her faith and life journey.

Describing how she couldn’t ignore the cycle of poverty in her own city, leading her to establish Dress for Success Midwest in 1998, she spoke of how the growing awareness of clothing for job interviews was only the beginning, and much more was needed to address the gap between an entry-level job and a family living wage.

In 1999, Kathy’s husband, Brad, joined her to create Wheels for Success, providing used, safe and reliable cars to women needing daily transportation. Two years later, the couple merged their enterprises under a single banner: Connections to Success. The organization provides “a comprehensive network of services and support to help people living in poverty become economically selfsufficient,” according to its website, breaking the cycle of poverty for the next generation.

KAtHy lAMbert: Social Enterprise When you know Elizabeth Mannen, you can’t imagine anything would slow her down. From pursuing three college degrees at two colleges simultaneously, to spending the first five years of her career in Japan, to growing a busy financial advisory practice, Mannen Financial Group of Wells Fargo Advisors, while raising twins and pursuing her passion for outdoor activities, she seems unstoppable.

When you learn that Mannen is a five-time cancer survivor, she seems even fiercer. At age 26, she was diagnosed with stage IV ovarian cancer, and the prognosis was grim. But Mannen fought, enduring two years of treatment. The cancer returned at age 35 and again at 38. At 42, she learned she had breast cancer, which recurred at age 48. Now, at 52, Mannen uses the clarity she found through her own health struggles to help others.

Kathy paused as she scanned the crowd. Several Connections to Success clients were in attendance, participating in the daylong goalsetting workshop, and Kathy called one to the front of the room. As the woman stood beside her, Kathy told the audience of the struggles faced by this single mother who was striving to make a better life for her children. And then Kathy asked, “But you still don’t have a car, do you?” The women shook her head and looked down.

At that moment Brad entered the room, keys jingling in his hand.

As the audience cheered, the Lamberts presented the keys to the woman, who would drive away that day in a car that would make it easier for her to get to work on time and be there for her children.

Through Connections to Success, which provides a life transformation coach and lifelong engagement through volunteer mentors to each participant, along with training in workforce readiness skills, job placement and retention, health and wellness, financial education, literacy, educational programs, occupational skills and transitional employment, Kathy continues to change lives.

“First survive, then thrive,” is the message she shares with newly diagnosed cancer patients. “First, just get through the treatment. Later comes the learning – the gifts. Cancer clearly defines what’s important to you and allows you to feel joy differently. The sky is bluer, the birds chirp louder and your twins’ laughs make your smile wider.”

Mannen is a sought-after speaker on both financial literacy and women’s health at conferences and other events. Through her work with Wells Fargo, she has provided leadership for United Way campaigns, partnerships with Saint Louis Public Schools and the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. She also serves on the board for Lydia’s House, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and St. Louis Ovarian Cancer Awareness, and is the managing trustee for the Berges Family Foundation.

elizAbetH MAnnen: Volunteer Leadership

Colleen Starkloff never expected to find love when she began working as a physical therapist at the St. Joseph Hill Infirmary in Eureka. But on her second day there, Max Starkloff “decided to check out the new PT. He wheeled into my office, and it was love at first sight,” she says. And so on Oct. 2, 1973, the romance began.

Yet Max and Colleen’s partnership went far beyond their personal commitment. The couple quickly began working together on Max’s concept of independent living for people with disabilities through their first venture, Paraquad. At the same time, Colleen became a vocal public advocate for accessibility, helping to shape national policy around access to transportation and housing.

The couple married in 1975, and in 1977, Colleen quit her

job to dedicate her time to Paraquad and local activism. “We were forming new attitudes and ideas around life for people with disabilities – and we were living it,” she notes. The pair built a turn-of-the-century multistory home and made it accessible for Max, who had become quadriplegic after a 1959 car accident, and adopted three children.

In 2003, Max and Colleen left Paraquad to establish the Starkloff Disability Institute, which empowers people with disabilities to achieve economic independence through employment. After 35 years of marriage, Max died in 2010, but Colleen continues their work and legacy. She regularly speaks to corporate and public groups about how people with disabilities can live and work as contributing members of the community.

Colleen Kelly stArKloff: Human Welfare Like many of her fellow Women of Achievement, Asha Zimmerman’s volunteer road began when she learned of an existing program that touched her heart. In 2001, Zimmerman read an article about The Wings Program, BJC HealthCare’s pediatric palliative care and hospice. A mother of two, Zimmerman felt the urge to help the program raise funds, but no fundraising arm existed – so she created one. Since then, Friends of Wings has raised approximately $10 million for services and awareness programs.

Evidence of Friends of Wings is scattered throughout the St. Louis area in the 56 butterfly sculptures created by local artists through the Wings in the City program. Other programs funded by Friends of Wings include Daybreak, a grief retreat for parents who have experienced the death of a child; Labyrinth, a grief retreat for teens whose sibling or parent has died; Stepping Stones, a weekend bereavement camp for children; and Lumina, a program allowing people of all ages to share their stories and create legacy projects for loved ones.

Through Friends of Wings, Zimmerman launched the Remember the Love campaign to celebrate what would have been

a child’s birthday. “We flock the family yard with more than 100 hearts or other shapes on sticks so that when the family wakes up, they see a yard full of beautiful symbols, along with a sign that says ‘we remember the love.’ It’s amazing – it’s my new favorite thing,” she says.

Zimmerman also established Joyful Celebrations to recognize a birthday or significant event in the life of a Wings patient.

And to help reach a terminally ill child’s entire community, she formed Wings on Wheels, a mobile expressive therapy program in a brightly painted vehicle that brings professionals and therapeutic services to a patient’s classmates, church groups and sports teams. “In less than five years, the vehicle has been to more than 800 family homes, more than 70 schools and more than 35 community groups, providing support for more than 6,000 people,” Zimmerman says. “A quote stays with me; a father of a child who had passed away said they ‘have just gone through the most horrible experience, but Wings made it just a bit better.’”

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n early April, Chase Club held its grand opening at The Chase Park Plaza. The restaurant pays homage to the space’s former life as an iconic hotel bar of the same name from the Roaring ’20s. The revamp features a vintage-style vibe with modern touches, along with a casual food menu, an extensive beer program, craft cocktails and enhanced entertainment.

Chase Club fills the 3,000-square-foot space previously occupied by Café Eau in the hotel’s lobby.

The bar and dining room underwent a full remodel from Atlanta-based TUL Designs, with bold hues and patterns inspired by ’30s Art Deco. Inside seating totals 96, including 28 bar stools, with amenities including 75-inch TVs and two pool tables.

In mid-April, the hotel reopened its Mediterraneanstyle terrace, which doubles as Chase Club’s patio, equipped with outdoor fireplace seating beside the

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property’s pool. Also, Chase Club sits directly across the hall from The Preston, which opened last year with a refined menu of modern American cuisine.

“The Preston is more of an adventure – hopefully, you’re trying things there you’ve never tried before.

Here, we want people to find familiar things with a different twist,” says the Chase’s chef de cuisine, Theron Pajares. “The Chase Club is more experiencedriven first. You’re coming for the entertainment and the atmosphere and staying for the snacks. It’s the same menu all day for people watching sports, playing pool or just relaxing.”

Pajares works with executive chef Collin Smelser and executive pastry chef Eric Phillips in a fromscratch kitchen to roll out what he describes as highend, elevated bar food that’s fun, approachable and easy to eat.

By Mabel Suen Highlights include poutine étouffée with polenta fries, spicy crawfish étouffée and cheese curds; shrimp St. Paul sliders with house pickles, lettuce and spicy mayo; and the Chase Club burger with a 7-ounce certified Angus-beef patty, bacon-onion jam, boursin and bibb lettuce on a Vitale’s Bakery bun. Additional selections include flatbreads, salads, sandwiches and desserts such as Earl Grey crème brûlée. With such a wide selection, Chase Club certainly makes a great pre-event visiting place before making your way to the Tennessee Williams Festival.

Behind the bar, beverage manager Joshua Johnson developed a beer-centric drink menu that includes both local craft beers and imports. Guests can choose from roughly a dozen and a half different beers on tap and a rotating list of almost two dozen bottles and cans.

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Brewing Co.’s Fantasyland and Mark Twain Brewing Co.’s Rambler’s Red to Guinness and Hoegaarden.

Fans of The Preston’s cocktail bar will find a few mixed drinks to choose from here as well, such as Johnson’s personal favorite: the Arch Rival, with Bulleit bourbon, The Big O Ginger Liqueur and grapefruit juice. According to Johnson, this autumn, the bar will also feature its own signature whiskey-barrel-aged beers in a partnership with Modern Brewery.

“At the Chase Club, we’re trying to capture the classic feel of the great American hotel bar,” Johnson says. “It’s a step toward the Prohibition era with a great selection of drinks.”

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‌Story: Monk opens his seaside bar in Southern California to another evening of revelry and reminiscence. He enjoys talking with the patrons of his modest but welcoming establishment, where regulars can feel at home and visitors can escape the outside world with their beverage of choice.

Regulars include Leona, an exuberant beautician who’s been sharing her trailer for the last six months with a handsome, bigoted ne’erdo-well named Bill, who has worn out his welcome. Doc, meanwhile, has been stripped of his medical license but continues to practice on the sly, and Violet, a down-on-her-luck floozy who enjoys catering to young sailors visiting the port, benefits from the generosity of Steve, a short-order cook who keeps her fed with hot dogs and burgers.

On this particular night – the anniversary of the death of Leona’s artistically talented and “different” younger brother – Monk’s is patronized as well by a pair of gay men: an older scriptwriter named Quentin and Bobby, a young man who has bicycled from Iowa across the country to see the Pacific Ocean.

This collection of lost souls contemplates life over a drink or three, some songs from the jukebox and the conversations of their fellow refugees in Monk’s sanctuary from the indifference of the world. They get by as best they can.

Highlights: First produced in 1972, Small Craft Warnings serves as the “marquee” production in the second annual Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis in a handsomely staged presentation directed by Richard Corley, featuring a cast of capable players interpreting the St. Louis playwright’s dialogue in one of his later works.

Other Info: The Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis this year has expanded beyond the one weekend of performances in its inaugural season with plays – Small Craft Warnings and Will Mr. Merriwether Return From Memphis?, as well as Bertha in Paradise, a cabaretstyle show that ran from May 5 to 7 – which continue into subsequent weekends in May. Scenic designer Dunsi Dai makes shrewd use of the stage at the .ZACK Incubator venue in Grand Center to depict the innards of Monk’s tavern, which features a mounted sailfish courtesy of props provider Annina Christensen above the well-stocked bar to accentuate

the coastal environs. A jukebox in the back, a door to the restroom at stage right and an opening at stage left leading to Monk’s living quarters above the tavern provide the ambiance, along with a couple of tables and a smattering of chairs.

Robin McGee dresses the players in costumes that match their characters, from the tacky polyester slacks favored by Bill to Steve’s grimy T-shirt, to the sailor cap that epitomizes Leona’s lusty and adventurous spirit. Sound designer Michael Perkins adds some classical tunes preferred by Leona on the jukebox, while Michael Sullivan’s lighting showcases each of the players in their monologues of varying lengths.

Williams’ poetic language serves the soliloquies well, especially the haunting words of Leona and Quentin. Elizabeth Townsend brings out the humanity and collegial spirit of the former, impassioned in her pleading for others to recognize the achievements of her beloved late brother while also urging Bobby, Violet and the others to grab for the brass ring while they can.

Small Craft Warnings is more of a moment in time and a series of monologues than a conventional play with a plot woven throughout its one act and 90 minutes. Its strength lies in Williams’ elegantly shaped language and his reflections on the human condition.

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Ready Readers

Reading for Better Friendships

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ith summer’s arrival, many preschool programs will soon end, and children will start camps, swimming lessons and other seasonal activities.

As a result, they may feel anxiety about strange, different situations; transitions can really throw little ones for a loop and cause insecurity about reorienting themselves.

Parents, because you don’t want to create needless doubt when explaining upcoming schedule alterations, reading a book about making new friends can open a conversation with children needing reassurance.

In that respect, consider as two appealing photograph-based choices – both used with children ages 3 to 5 years old in the Ready Readers program, with almost 10,000 children recently receiving the latter to read at home – Making Friends by the late earlychildhood TV icon Fred Rogers (of PBS’s Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood) and Will You Be My Friend? by new author Susan Lurie with photos by Murray Head.

Rogers’ nonfiction offering gives 2- and 3-year-olds guidance with the people, places and ways that friends find each other and engage in play. It also provides examples of normal discord between children and offers positive models for appropriate conflict resolution.

Adults might notice some dated clothing styles in Making Friends – it was first published in 1987 – but children should focus on the faces and situations of friends at play. As in all of Rogers’ books, he saw children as complex beings with deep emotions, and he never doubted their abilities to cope and succeed.

Will You Be My Friend? introduces us to a meek mouse in need of a friend to accept him for himself. Mouse surveys his surroundings for potential pals, considering a myriad of animals. Without meeting them, though, Mouse anticipates their personalities as being far too different for a good match: “This peacock’s too fancy.

The frog is too jumpy. This duck is too noisy. That bird looks too grumpy.”

Grumpy Bird informs Mouse that he already has a friend – he needs only to look to find that

By Sheila Oliveri friend. The bird provides clues to help Mouse discover his mystery comrade, but Mouse can’t quite solve the mystery. With Grumpy Bird’s help, though, Mouse eventually does find a friend – and learns a lesson about not judging creatures by their outward appearances.

Lurie’s story, told in flowing verse, should lend itself to discussion about feelings of shyness and the anxiety people, young and old alike, sometimes cultivate by imagining others to be different than they really are. It should serve as a good reminder for children ages 3 to 5 – and for the adults reading to them.

Otherwise, thanks to Head, Will You Be My Friend? features vibrant photography, showing distinct close-ups of more than 20 animals in their natural environments.

In conclusion, parents, with a little time spent in advance with a book and some conversation, you can equip children with the confidence and tools they need to welcome whatever adventures may come their way this summer!

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Fri., May 12, to Wed., May 31 Reliance Bank and Kodner Gallery Fine Art present original paintings by St. Louis artist JOHN M. HELLER. The exhibit showcases the neverbefore-seen paintings at the bank’s Frontenac branch. All artwork on display is also available for purchase. Most known for his large-scale mural works around the St. Louis area, Heller studied at Washington University, the Cincinnati Art Academy and the Pennsylvania Academy of Art. The exhibit reveals the great variety in Heller’s portfolio, including portraits, genre scenes and historical works. kodnergallery.com or reliancebankstl.com.

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Lauren Marks, author of A Stitch of Time: The Year a Brain Injury Changed My Language and My Life, visits Left Bank Books for a BOOK DISCUSSION. The event is free, but proof of book purchase from Left Bank is required to enter the signing line. At 27, Marks was fighting for her life after an aneurysm ruptured in her brain. The aftermath was difficult, with Marks’ writing, speaking and reading abilities greatly damaged. During this time, Marks kept a journal with the goal of tracking her year following the aneurysm, which later became A Stitch of Time, her debut memoir. The memoir follows Marks as “the way she perceived her environment and herself had profoundly changed.” 7 p.m. 314-367-6731 or left-bank.com.

Sat., May 13

Fri., May 12, to Sun., May 14

The Fabulous Fox Theatre presents DIRTY DANCING. Christopher Tierney and Jillian Mueller star as Johnny Castle and Frances “Baby” Houseman. James Powell directs the production’s North American tour, with a book by Eleanor Bergstein and choreography by Michele Lynch. Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story on Stage is considered an “unprecedented live experience, exploding with heartpounding music, passionate romance and sensational dancing.” Showtimes vary. Tickets start at $45.

314-534-1111 or fabulousfox.com.

Sat., May 13 Fri., May 12, to Sun., May 14

Laumeier Sculpture Park’s three-day 30th annual ART FAIR, presented by Emerson, anticipates attendance in excess of 12,000 visitors. Attractions include local food and beverage vendors, hands-on activities for kids, live music and 150 artists from across the country, with work involving ceramics, fiber, textiles, glass, jewelry and more. Friday evening is set for Art of the Vine, a wine-tasting event from 6 to 9 p.m. The City of Sunset Hills Music Festival kicks off on Saturday afternoon from 2 to 8 p.m. Main-stage entertainment continues throughout the weekend, featuring performances

by Funky Butt Brass Band, Trixie Delight, Boogie Chyld and others. $10 admission, but children 10 years old and younger are free. Other special-event prices vary. laumeier.org.

Left Bank Books hosts children’s author Doreen Cronin for a BOOK DISCUSSION of her debut middle-grade novel, Cyclone. The free event takes place at Left Bank. Proof of purchase of Cyclone from Left Bank is required to enter the signing line. Best-selling author Cronin is known for The Chicken Squad series and other picture books, including Dooby Dooby Moo; Thump, Quack, Moo: A Whacky Adventure; and others. In Cyclone, the main character, Nora, looks forward to riding Coney Island’s Cyclone roller coaster, but runs into trouble when her cousin, Riley, collapses after the ride. Upon waking up, Riley somehow isn’t the same, but Nora’s determined to get her back. 4 p.m.

314-367-6731 or left-bank.com.

The Foundry Art Centre hosts a MOTHER’S DAY WORKSHOP. Instead of heading to the mall for Mother’s Day shopping, the center suggests making a personalized bath bomb for the special mother, grandmother or other woman in your life. Each bath bomb has the potential to be unique with the use of customizable colors and scents. Admission price includes materials.

1 to 3 p.m. $40 per person. 636-255-0270 or foundryartcentre.org/adult-programming.

Sat., May 13, and Sun., May 14

The St. Louis Symphony presents SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN to celebrate the movie musical’s 65th anniversary. While audiences watch the film featuring Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor and Debbie Reynolds, the St. Louis Symphony plays the score live. The two shows hope to “take audiences on a captivating journey and showcase the orchestra through musical storytelling.”

Showtimes vary. Tickets start at $52. 314-534-1700 or stlsymphony.org.

Sun., May 14

To celebrate Mother’s Day and the fight against breast cancer, the St. Louis Cardinals host a POWER OF THE PINK DAY at Busch Stadium before taking on the Chicago Cubs. Power of the Pink provides 30,000 fans 16 years old and older with a Cardinals glass picture frame. A breast cancer survivor also takes the field to throw out the ceremonial first pitch. The game starts at 1:15 p.m. powerofthepink.com.

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A project sponsored by two heavy hitters in the arts and architecture spheres urges viewers to contemplate the beautiful mutability of urban streetscapes.

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n a central St. Louis neighborhood at the moment, a duo of distinguished Chicagoans are exploring the transformative and revitalizing power of art, in both space and time, in an intriguing and perhaps even sui generis fashion.

As the focus of a joint commission collaboratively organized by the Pulitzer Arts Foundation and the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, artists Andres L. Hernandez and Amanda Williams have launched a seasons-spanning design-build project titled “A Way, Away (Listen While I Say).”

The project, which started in midspring and runs through autumn, is unfolding at 3721 Washington Ave., due north of the Pulitzer, in Grand Center.

“We received the commission to explore the ways in which small-scale creative interventions might serve as meaningful catalysts for urban transformation,” state Hernandez and Williams, in tandem, by email.

At a time when St. Louis, from day to day, teeters on the brink of becoming “the new Detroit” – that is, a municipality mired in long-term urban decay and other societal woes – Hernandez and Williams continue by confessing to being “interested in the restorative and redemptive potential of vacant urban sites.”

In that regard, the two cite prior individual works of theirs that might rank as aesthetic precursors of “A Way, Away.”

More specifically, Hernandez mentions a 2014 project titled “Benign Neglect (let rocks their silence break)” that used aerial images of Chicago’s Washington Park as “plans” for a Zen garden – establishing “a rite, a rhythm and a prompt for dialogue about a wealth of social and spatial possibilities” – subsequently constructed in the courtyard of the University of Chicago’s Logan Center.

Williams, for her part, references an exuberant series, also from 2014, titled “Color(ed)Theory” designed to interpret potential sociopolitical underpinnings of this nation’s quotidian collective palette by asking questions like these: “What color is urban? What color is gentrification? What color is privilege? What color is poverty?”

Given the scope of Hernandez and Williams’ present project, both physically and temporally, they also dwell, briefly, on the categorical pedigree of “A Way, Away.”

“In general, the project falls into several contemporary threads in architectural discourse as the industry grapples with questions of vacancy, demolition, reuse, preservation [and] sustainability, also the overlap of art and architecture,” they state.

“We’ve looked at a broad spectrum of projects as references for different segments.”

In that regard, oddly enough, “A Way, Away” approximates a 3-D realization of a 1993 serigraph by über-underground cartoonist R. Crumb. In Crumb’s customarily exquisite stipple, the 15 panels of that serigraph, titled A Short History of America, track a single domestic parcel, decade after decade, from pastoral serenity through urban insanity, culminating in three prospective views.

In addition to Pulitzer staff and Sam Fox School faculty, staff and students, Hernandez and Williams mention assistance in realizing “A Way, Away” from “several outside contractors to shape and deliver our proposed project phases, as well as document the project in full.” Such contractors include professionals in painting, demolition, the neophyte mini-industry of brick “harvesting” and landscaping.

The physical and temporal scope of the project – whose open nature visitors can view both at their leisure and for free – explains the necessity for such assistance. “‘A Way, Away’ began in February by painting the condemned building at 3721 Washington Blvd. gold prior to demolition,” state Hernandez and Williams. “The project will continue to unfold in phases over the next several months through fall 2017.”

The Chicagoans “have developed five major site interventions that parallel the cyclical phases of demolition and construction within the built environment and within the immediate Washington Boulevard corridor. Each intervention is guided by a related contemporary issue in urban planning and policy, architecture, art, the construction industry and related fields of practice and inquiry.”

The first “intervention,” Marking, involved painting the 3721 Washington Blvd. building gold, as noted. In so doing, Hernandez and Williams sought to “ritualize the act of un/building” by preparing the structure for transition. For this intervention, they sought community participation by inviting neighbors of the building, students and others – including, puckishly, passersby – to take part in the painting.

Subtracting, the second intervention, will comprise what Hernandez and Williams call “choreographed demolition”: deconstructing walls (in a physical sense, not in a philosophical or literary sense) and razing the remaining structure and foundation by using “construction equipment as tools for un-drawing the site.”

The third intervention, Translating, will transform the architectural remains of the former building into a smaller sculptural object in what the pair call an “iterative and choreographed process in collaboration with contractors.” This intervention also will

involve harvesting the former building’s precious bricks for subsequent use and developing a temporary workspace to clean, sort, stack and deliver them.

Shaping, the fourth intervention, will focus on redefining the site’s greensward through designed sod planting. The bricks harvested in the third intervention will be used in community design projects.

Finally, in the fifth intervention, which Hernandez and Williams call Healing, they’ll “deinstall” the project and return the site to its preproject state. At this point, they’ll also gift the harvested bricks to preselected local partners and “ritualize” the closure of “A Way, Away.”

Both for the nonce and for the future, as well as in pixel and in print, Hernandez and Williams note, “All five phases of the project are being documented … ” In pixel, documentation involves a stand-alone project website and other sites, including Instagram (@awayawaystl). In print, each intervention will be “posterized” in broadsides including new and reprinted essays available in the Pulitzer and free to visitors as they view “A Way, Away” or attend related programs. “Lastly, the two of us are working to capture the project in full through a book project in the near future,” Hernandez and Williams state.

In addition to presenting “A Way, Away,” the two together served as visiting assistant professors at the Sam Fox School last fall; both also will serve on the exhibition design team for the museum at the future Barack Obama Presidential Center, tentatively scheduled for completion on Chicago’s South Side in 2020 or 2021.

Those two bona fides, by the way, merely number among a plethora of credentials for the distinguished duo. Academically, Hernandez earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Ithaca, New York’s Cornell University and a Master of Arts degree in art education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Similarly, Williams earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree with an emphasis in fine art from Cornell.

Hernandez and Williams’ “A Way, Away,” it bears noting, already has earned praise from the highest levels of both entities backing their commission.

“We are thrilled that they will bring their experience working in cities marked by vacancy – along with an approach that is at once deeply thoughtful, bold and practical – to the St. Louis community,” Pulitzer director Cara Starke remarked in an early-March press release.

In the same release, Carmon Colangelo, dean of the Sam Fox School, noted that Hernandez and Williams “combine the roles of artist, architect, art educator and social activist,” before continuing, “I am confident that they will bring the same dynamic dialogue to this project, activating the space and spurring inclusive conversation about art and design in the public realm.”

In the final analysis, “A Way, Away” recalls a haunting passage from “East Coker,” the second magisterial movement of St. Louis native T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets: “In succession / Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, / Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place / Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass.”

“A Way, Away (Listen While I Say),” awayaway.site

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Taking over the town square in Belleville, Art on the Square lines the streets with art from all over the world, with artists near and far coming to take part. A café square and wine court deliver delectable choices, allowing you to enjoy everything from sushi to European pastries while listening to jazz and witnessing an artist demonstration. Art on the Square takes place in Belleville, Illinois. Call 618-233-6769 or 800-677-9255 (visitor information) or 618-444-3802 (general information), or visit artonthesquare.com to learn more.

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rt on the Square continually is ranked the nation’s best juried art show for a reason. Not only does it unite artists from all different mediums and locations across the globe, it achieves what few can: It unites the community while creating a welcoming atmosphere where patrons can connect with artists.

“Have you ever noticed how, when you go to a gallery or museum, you start whispering?” Patty Gregory, executive director of Art on the Square, asks. “Some people may feel a little intimidated [at venues like that], but at art shows in a city venue or on the street, people feel comfortable.” Local, national and global talents are on hand, thrilled to converse with passersby as they take in the beauty of each unique piece.

The show makes art accessible – and even more so with the option to obtain Art Cash year-round. “If you are gifted $200 in Art Cash and you see a piece at the show that costs $400, to some people, it may now seem like it only costs $200. That’s the beauty of Art Cash,” Gregory explains. “We have a wide range of price points because we are a community show. We want people to come out, bring family and friends, and enjoy themselves!”

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are represented. (Find a full listing online.) “The highlight of everything, of course, is the artist – and we have artists coming from all over,” Gregory shares. “Estella Fransbergen from Pimento, Florida, was born in South Africa. She studied there, as well as in Italy and America. She’s in galleries in Florence, Italy, and the Daytona Museum of Art. She started in pottery but considers herself a sculptress now.

[Fransbergen] starts with the torso of a woman’s body because she believes that is the soul. She then adds skirts. What’s really interesting is how she incorporates metals, and precious and semiprecious stones, like Swarovski crystals, into the dresses.

Thousands and thousands of strands of silver, stones and beads. It’s ethereal. It’s an expression of the human form – that is the beauty of her work.”

From city sculpture tours and artists demonstrations to the design stage and student involvement, there is much to enjoy. “Some people, after meeting at the fair, have reunions [each year],” Gregory says. “It’s like visiting old friends. This really is the kind of show for everyone. We’re really looking forward to another wonderful year.”

Art on the Square, P.O. Box 23561, Belleville, Illinois, 618-233-6769 or 800-677-9255 (visitor information), 618-444-3802 (general information), artonthesquare.com

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10411 Clayton Road, Ste 101 • Le Chateau Village Frontenac, Missouri 63131 • 314-991-1999

Brooks Tuckpointing Inc. Chimney Repair, Glass Blocks, Brick Block, Stone & Stucco.

Waterproofing. Insured.

40 Yrs Experience. Free Estimates.

314-910-3132 636-797-2947

VACATION RENTALS Spectacular Gulf Coast House Carillon Beach, FL, Destin Area 4BR, 4BA, 3 pools, tennis courts & so much more! Great Rates.

Available NOW! Call Dave at 314-922-8344 For Pictures Please Visit www.vrbo.com/602232

TUCKPOINTING

M. Galati, LLC Tuckpointing Spot or Entire Home

Color Match Experts Power Washing Silicon Waterproofing Owner on site to insure CUSTOMER SATISFACTION No Job Too Small • 35yrs Exp. Senior Discount • Fully Insured

314-365-4241

WANTED QQQQQQQQQQQQQQ WANTED ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES Old Advertising, Records Sports Memorabilia, Old Toys STL History, Breweriana, Etc Call Ben at (314)518-5769

SERIOUS COLLECTOR & HISTORIAN Will Pay Top $ for WWII Military Relic's. Swords, Daggers, Metals, Badges, Hats, Helmets, Flags & Guns. 314-249-5369

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9 Wakefield Drive, Ladue $1,249,000

1 Cantor Hill Drive, Ladue 8 Acres $3,750,000

1751 Woodlawn Avenue, Ladue $3,925,000

525 Ticino Drive, Imperial 120 Acres $4,950,000

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OLIVER & associates

28 Fair Oaks Drive, Ladue $2,395,000

314.725.0009 DielmannSothebysRealty.com

314.322.6992 StephanieOliverSTL.com 8301 Maryland Avenue, Suite 100 St. Louis, MO 63105