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Mike Shannon's Grill Opens Friday in Edwardsville

Mike Shannon, former Cardinals player and current radio-host-turned-restauranteur is at it again. The owners of Mike Shannon's Steaks and Seafood (620 Market Street; 314-421-1540) are opening Mike Shannon's Grill (871 South Arbor Vitae, Edwardsville, Illinois; 618-655-9911), an upscale-casual eatery ... More >>

Buildings=Energy Architecture Exhibit Highlights Sustainable Construction

It's only fitting that what was once the ground floor of St. Louis Centre -- and is today being transformed into the sleek and hip MX (that's short for Mercantile Exchange, btw) -- would be the site for an architecture display on the future of urban design. Kicking off tonight (5-8 p.m. at 635 Locus ... More >>

Kay Ottinger: St. Louis Interior Decorator Indicted for Overbilling Clients $1 Million

Above: A fashion faux pas nearly as criminal as Ms. Ottinger's. ​With the exception of my extremely ethical mother, I thought it was the somewhat accepted that interior designers overbill their clients. (Hey, if you really need professional advice on which throw pillow best matches the sofa, frank ... More >>

Big Week for Print Nerds in St. Louis

Melissa MeinzerEvil prints of original artwork -- the perfect thing to go under your beer.​If you're into printmaking, your schedule next week is going to be packed. On Wednesday, the Southern Graphics International Conference comes to town, which is sponsored by Washington University and includes ... More >>

Prints of the Plates

Printmaking Punks and Professors to Converge on STL this Spring

Image viaScreenprinted tortillas are coming to Cherokee Street​Whip out your [bound and boutique-crafted] day planners, all you printmaking junkies:1) The Cherokee Print League is doing their 3rd Annual Holiday sale on Dec. 4, don't forget. 2) The nation's premier printmaking conference -- that of ... More >>

Wash. U. Building Among World's Greenest

image viaIt's alive!!! Sorry, it's just a Living Building.​The Living Learning Center at Washington University's Tyson Research Center has just been designated one of the first the first two Living Buildings by the International Living Building Institute (ILBI), the most rigorous green buildi ... More >>

VISION/RE-VISION

Go Greene

Two Heads, One Show

Crossroads Becomes Sixth School in Nation to Earn Highest LEED Certification

Crossroads' new science and library building.​Good news St. Louis: Now you can send your children to a school that's as environmentally friendly as the one where Barack and Michelle Obama send their daughters. That's right. Crossroads College Preparatory School was recently awarded a platinum LEED ... More >>

Post-Dispatch Readers Grumble Over Jury for New Arch Grounds Design

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elasticsoul/ / CC BY-SA 2.0​Here are the folks who'll get to decide how the Arch grounds will look in 2015 (the year the monument turns 50). Commenters at stltoday.com are grumbling about one of them. Can you guess which one?Robert Campbell, architecture critic at The ... More >>

The Cover of the November 26 Print Edition

Turning (to the) Japanese

Post-Dispatch Will Not Hire a New Art Critic

Update on David Bonetti's retirement tomorrow from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Executive editor Arnie Robbins tells Daily RFT that he will not replace Bonetti, who reviewed all visual arts and architecture for the Post. "We will cover art well, however, because art is so important to a community a ... More >>

Citygarden To Open July 1; Downtown Park Will Provide City a Permanent Facelift

Aerial rendering of Citygarden. The much anticipated Citygarden, which hopes to further propel downtown St. Louis' revitalization efforts, opens to the public at 6 a.m. on July 1. Situated on a two-block stretch between 8th and 10th streets -- bounded by Chestnut Street on the north and M ... More >>

Who Built This City?

Cover of the June 18 Print Edition

Clay Wins POLITICO's Uncoveted Lead Mouse Award

It must be said that POLITICO is nowhere near the most cutting-edge and beautiful website on the Internet, even in the political realm. But there are plenty that are uglier, some of which belong to various members of the Congress of our great and glorious nation, which POLITICO has felt moved to hon ... More >>

All Wright Turns

Re-Making of the Arch Grounds - Time to Weigh-In is Now

Got a heads up late yesterday from Tom Bradley, superintendent of the Arch grounds here in St. Louis, that there are only six more days for the public to weigh-in on the National Park Service's proposed changes to the land surrounding the Arch.To view the four potential master plans for the site, cl ... More >>

'90s Hip-Hop Jam of the Week: Silk, "Freak Me"

Very illuminating for any kid in the '90s. Also, a direct descendant of the Slow Jam. Silk |MTV Music

Featured Review: Ideal (Dis-) Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer

New Year's Resolutions for the Blog: Help A Sister Out

I'll have a couple of year-end mixes for A to Z readers on Monday (my crushing hangover and then the raging cold I subsequently developed meant I wasn't much up to, um, anything yesterday), but until then, I'd like to throw out a question. We talked about music community new year's resolutions over ... More >>

Font of Knowledge

Helvetica runs rampant in neutral

Euclid Records Starting Limited-Edition 45 RPM Singles Series, Culled from Live Performances. Steve Wynn First Performer, Art Chantry Designing Sleeve

The Cover of the August 28 Print Edition

Home Sweet Home

Pattern Interference: Digital Media and the Visual Arts

The Poster Service

Concert posters the old-fashioned way.

Rebuilt to Suit

SLU won't say what it has in store for the Locust Business District.

A Very Strong Current

Tower Power

A Whole New Ballgame

Riverfront Times uncovers secret plan for Ballpark Village cultural landmark.

King's English

Boxing promoter and great orator Don King pontificates on the Lou, and we stumble across a photo-enhanced Local Blog o' the Week. Plus: the super-snazzy logo that's going to save our public schools.

Best Décor

Monarch

The Family Guy

A son goes looking for his late father and finds some buildings

Best Museum Exhibition

Sculpture and Drawings by Richard Serra

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

The Shape of Things

Spend time with Serra and learn how to see

The Scarlet Letter

In St. Louis, the "A" is for "ambition"

Best New Building

Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts

Trash Collector

Revered graphic designer Art Chantry now calls St. Louis home

Rubber Cement

Three exhibits honoring architect Tadao Ando shine a light on the man who designed the new Pulitzer museum

Architect of Form and Spirit: Eric Mendelsohn

Center of Contemporary Arts, through March 10

Best Web-Interface Design Staff

Chameleon Creative

Best New-Building Blueprint

Forum for Contemporary Art

Modern History

The new Emerson Electric Center addition to the Missouri History Museum makes its debut

WRIGHT-MINDED

St. Louis architect William Adair Bernoudy learned his trade as a protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright but came away with a style all his own