Known around town as the largest and best Halloween celebration in St. Louis, this year’s Legendary CWE Halloween Costume Contest, held on Saturday, October 29, certainly lived up to the hype. The CWE North Community Improvement District produces and funds the days’ events under the leadership of executive director Kate Haher. Co-Producers were the seasoned…
Category: Art & Architecture
A Frenchwoman bids adieu to St. Louis
I met Françoise Olivier in 2013 at a Washington University Women’s Society gathering at the Kemper Museum, shortly after she moved to St. Louis from Brussels. Looking back on the past ten years of our friendship, I realize that from that very first meeting most of our interactions have centered around art. Now, as she…
Snapshots from a recent trip to Oakland
In mid-September I flew out to Oakland to visit family. It had been 2 1/2 years since I had traveled anywhere, so I was a little apprehensive about getting on a plane once again but, as is usually the case, once I got there those concerns melted away. I was visiting Oakland’s Uptown District, which…