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Here's another St. Louis themed book, just released, well worth your consideration. It contains wonderful watercolors of famous St. Louis scenes, both past and present. I read the book this weekend and thoroughly enjoyed the artwork and historical information. From the publisher's website: In St. Louis in Watercolor , renowned artist Marilynne Bradley presents rich, breathtaking scenes o...
STL Rising - Tue 8:10 a.m. - 8 clicks 
Amy Fontinelle, author, photographer, and blogger at Seeing St. Louis, is publishing a book entitled "Disappearing St. Louis". The book provides beautiful photography of St. Louis architecture with hopes of encouraging its preservation. Ms. Fontinelle created the book to bring greater awareness to the issues faced by the city in the hopes of bringing greater support to help solve them. She has...
STL Rising - Mon 4:46 p.m. - 11 clicks
...this land is my land ...You know how the rest of the song goes. It's a patriotic number about America and all her beauty. We sang it as a little children in school. Back in those days, there was a lot of singing in schools, and more public singing in general. Not so much any more. When we moved to St. Louis, one of the most striking things for us was the amount of public singing here, of...
STL Rising - Nov 12 - 7 clicks
For those wondering whether the design charette for the future of the Arch and riverfront in downtown St. Louis would be a “think big” effort, based on last night’s keynote presentation, they should be encouraged. Alex Krieger, professor or architecture at Harvard University, and principal in the firm Chan, Krieger, and Sieniewicz , opened the design charette with an hour long presentation highl...
STL Rising - Nov 7 - 13 clicks
With Metro suffering voting setbacks in St. Charles County and now St. Louis County, maybe people in St. Louis City should start exploring ways to extend rail service within the city limits? If routes travelled twin loops through main corridors north, south and central, we could get every city resident within a mile or so of a train stop. Everyone could be within walking distance, connecting all...
STL Rising - Nov 5 - 13 clicks
"Stabilizing Neighborhoods by Addressing Abandoned and Foreclosed Properties" Good read published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. The article addresses many of the concerns faced by neighborhood development advocates in the St. Louis region....
STL Rising - Nov 3 - 8 clicks
An often forgotten portion of the upcoming ballot is toward the end, just before the propositions and constitutional amendments--the retention of Circuit Court Judges. For those unfamiliar with the court system in the state of Missouri, every county, and the City of St. Louis (not being within a county) is contained within one of the state's 45 Circuit Courts. Many lesser populated counties are ...
Comments St. Louis by Travis Reems - Oct 29 - 8 clicks
