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The annual CWE Families & Friends Easter Egg Hunt is set for this Sunday, March 24 at 4 p.m. in Kennedy Park, the triangular-shaped playground at Washington & Olive, just east of Euclid. The event is sponsored by the Central West End Association and the CWE Community Improvement District, but all the “heavy lifting,” such…
Today’s post covers news of two businesses that are opening in the CWE, Pizza Via and Laser Away, and Midas Barber Studio, which opened in April, 2023 at 449 N. Euclid. Pizza Via, 4501 Maryland When I mentioned to a neighbor the other day that I had stopped by to chat with Scott Sandler, above,…
Don’t miss Ernestine Betsberg: A Retrospective, which opened at Philip Slein Gallery, 4735 McPherson on February 23. It’s delightful. Betsberg (1909-2007) and her husband, artist Arthur Osver (1912-2006), met at the Art Institute in Chicago, and subsequently lived in New York, Italy, Florida and eventually moved to St. Louis in 1960 when Osver accepted a one-year…