The weather couldn’t have been prettier Saturday morning when neighborhood families and visitors from all over the St. Louis area gathered at The McPherson’s parking lot for the annual CWE Halloween parade. Led by Shriners’ parade cars and Cinderella in a horse-drawn carriage, they paraded down Euclid to the Main Stage at Maryland Plaza where…
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Movies on the Plaza: “The Greatest Showman” draws a large crowd
The Greatest Showman, the final offering of 2018’s Movies on the Plaza season—the 9th year Maryland Plaza has presented this popular neighbor event—drew about 100 people, the largest crowd of the summer. Many families were at last Wednesday’s screening including the Gamlins, Amy (far left), Derek (far right) and their kids. Amy is on the…
Sally Field, Gary Shteyngart, Michael Isikoff at 2018’s Bookfest St. Louis
The last authors to appear at 2017’s BookFest St. Louis in the Central West End had just packed their bags and headed for the airport when organizers, thrilled with the success of the inaugural event, started planning for 2018’s BookFest. The organizing team, including staff from Left Bank Books, the Left Bank Books Foundation and the…