WEB EXCLUSIVES THIS MONTH
- Podcast: EIC Stephen Schenkenberg talks pizzas with George Mahe [Listen at right or subscribe via iTunes]
- Take a sneak-peek at a few print pages
- Submit your own Best Pizzerias picks
- Share why you love St. Louis
- Extended Kitchen Q&A with Richard Connelly
[Note: For each new issue, St. Louis Magazine publishes only a select number of articles online, providing full content to subscribers and those who buy an issue on the newsstand. While all articles will eventually be published online here, your best bet for reading current content is to subscribe, buy an issue, or head to your local library. Thanks. —Stephen Schenkenberg, Editor-in-Chief]
BEHIND THE SCENES
The making of this issue
FROM THE EDITOR
There Will Be Pizza
By Stephen Schenkenberg
FEEDBACK
CURRENT
- First Shot: Fire and Ice
Olympic skater Katherine Reutter preps for Vancouver
By Jarrett Medlin - The Buzz: Clear Consensus
A Carbondale professor transforms glass into life's building blocks
By Byron Kerman - The Buzz: Bugs Goes Beethoven
SLSO goes Looney for an upcoming performance
By Byron Kerman - The Buzz: Selectively Single
This Valentine's, St. Louisans can find each other and common ground—if they know where to look.
By Jarrett Medlin - The Buzz: Food for Thought
The ideal Glenn Beck dinner party, before his February appearance at Chaifetz
By Jarrett Medlin - The Buzz: Sound Bite
Third Degree Glass Factory's Jim McKelvey, on Twitter co-founder and Square partner Jack Dorsey - The Buzz: A Political Polygraph
Eight questions we suggest candidates answer before February 2
By Jarrett Medlin - The Buzz: As the Globe Turns
It's deja vu all over again.
By Jeannette Cooperman
- The Buzz: An Account of Stewardship
A peek at how the Archdiocese of St. Louis is spending its money - What It's Like to Be a Soulard Bartender During Mardi Gras
Cory Hammerstone (of Hammerstone's), in her own words
By Jarrett Medlin - Agenda
Our five picks for the month
GLITTERATI
See these and more at our Party Pics page.
STYLE
- Things We Love: Tokens of Affection
Delight that special someone this 14th with these stylish surprises
By Nicole Benoist Edgerton - Shop Talk: Model Life
How a Midwest rodeo girl almost became a Victoria's Secret model
By Nicole Benoist Edgerton - The District: Crossing Over
Three fashionable boutiques have sprouted up at Town & Country Crossing. Now there's far more on the menu than Napoli 2 when shoppers visit the corner of Clayton and Woods Mill roads.
By Jeanette Kozlowski
CRIME
Psycho Killers, Qu'est-ce que C'est?
If a psychopath is mentally incapable of moral reasoning, do we punish him for acting normally? What about someone who's incapable of regulating her brain's impulses? The findings of the Law & Neuroscience Project could eventually transform the legal system. Right now, they're dangerously premature.
By Jeannette Cooperman
THINK AGAIN
To Dream the Possible Dream
America needs to think big about high-speed rail.
By Ray Hartmann
COVER FEATURE
The Best Pizzerias In St. Louis
18 Local Spots to Find the Perfect Pie
By Bill Burge, Dave Lowy, George Mahe, and Rose Martelli
Edited by George Mahe
- Plus: Send us your own Best Pizzerias picks. E-mail us your favorites today, and we'll publish them in a special Readers' Picks post on Feast, the magazine's food, wine, and spirits blog.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES
2010 Best Lawyers®
Search the new class of top attorneys in the St. Louis Region to find the right lawyer for you
Research compiled by Woodward/White, publishers of Best Lawyers®
Attorney interviews by Stephen Schenkenberg
Portfolio: Interstate of Mind
The 64/40 project is now behind us, but as it was happening, we wondered: Could something that delivered so much daily pain—two-plus years of detours, longcuts, and headaches—also, almost imperceptibly, provide a bit of beauty? Photographer Michael Eastman supplies an answer.
A St. Louis Kind of Love
50 reasons we're happy to call this city home
By Jeannette Cooperman, Christy Marshall, Jarrett Medlin, Stefene Russell, and Stephen Schenkenberg
A Conversation With D.J. Grothe
Nobody's fool
By Jeannette Cooperman
FOOD & DRINK
- First Look: Lafayette Fire Co. No. 1
By George Mahe - Review: Quintessential
By Dave Lowry
- Frugal Foodie: SweetArt
By Rose Martelli
- Kitchen Q&A: Richard Connelly of Goody Goody Diner
By George Mahe
- Liquid Assets: Pairing Pizza & Wine
By Chris Hoel
- Ins, Outs, and Almosts
By George Mahe - Plus the following box-outs: "V-Day Gift Idea," "Wine Steal," "Road Trip'"
Culture & Events
- First Stop: Edison Theatre
PHILADANCO: Rosa
By Stefene Russell - Out & About: Holy Handicrafts, Batman!
Mark Newport's painstakingly knitted superhero costumes save the day.
By Byron Kerman
– Sidebar: Stitching in Time: Allison Smith's "gas masks" - Cameo: X Marks the Spot
The excellent, complex, expanding and contracting St. Louis New Jazz X-tet can be heard every odd Sunday at Riddles—and soon, on a debut CD.
By Stefene Russell - The SLM Calendar (with Critic's Picks in Music, Photography, Books & Readings, Galleries, and Visual Arts)
FLASHBACK
1954: What's Your Sign?