WEB EXCLUSIVES THIS MONTH
- October-issue podcast [listen at right or subscribe via iTunes]
- Supplemental Mensa content: Quiz answers, plus a bonus profile of "St. Louis' Genius"
- Extended transcripts of "Fueling Change" interviews
- Flickr slideshow for "Whistling Past the Graveyard"
- An extended Kitchen Q&A
[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. —The Editors]
BEHIND THE SCENES
The making of this issue
FROM THE EDITOR
Guidance
By Stephen Schenkenberg
FEEDBACK
CURRENT
- First Shot: The Pumpkin King
Craig Sanders, Pumpkin Carver
By Jarrett Medlin - King of the Costume
Steve Davis has not left the building
By Byron Kerman - In Due Season We Shall Reap
For family farmers, Farm Aid continues to sow the seeds of perseveance—this year in St. Louis
By Bryan A. Hollerbach - Hear Me Out
SCP Worldwide's Dave Checketts on his busy schedule as of late - Seven Degrees
From Musharraf to Mortenson, it's a small world for this season's St. Louis Speakers Series. - Maze of Terror
High-pitched screams and lip-locked teens in Godfrey, Ill.
By Byron Kerman - A Tale of Two Oktoberfests
Want to taste to Missouri's German heritage? Pick your poison.
By Jarrett Medlin - By the Numbers
From San Luis Apartments to a Parking Lot
By Jarrettt Medlin
- What It's Like...to Be a Tarot Card Reader
By Jarrett Medlin - Agenda: Our five picks for the month
GLITTERATI
See these and more at our Party Pics page.
STYLE
- Things We Love: Plum Perfect
October is known for being frightful, but this month's colors—purple and marigold—are oh so delightful.
By Nicole Benoist Edgerton - Wishful Thinking
Wish Shoes gets a makeover with the addition of Sandi Czapla.
By Jeanette Kozlowski - Splurge vs. Steal
How to score the look you want—without breaking the bank
By Nicole Benoist Edgerton
ENVIRONMENT
Fueling Change
The specter of peak oil furthers the local-food movement and lures a new generation of Missourians back to the farm.
By Stefene Russell
REFLECTIONS
Crossings
Personal roads traveled through the city-county divide
By Frank Kovarik
THINK AGAIN
No News is Bad News (Coverage)
Why isn't a first-degree murder acquittal worthy of media attention?
By Ray Hartmann
COVER FEATURE
The Best New Restaurants 2009
Open a restaurant during a recession? Here are 15 reasons to say yes.
By Bill Burge, Dave Lowry, George Mahe, and Rose Martelli
Edited by George Mahe
Photographs by Katherine Bish
Plus:
– The Missing Year: Since we produce this "Best New Restaurants" every two years, we've also recognized the best of what opened during the year we took "off."
– Restaurant Postmortems: For the second year in a row, SLM looks back at what closed, hypothesizes why, and suggests where to turn next.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES
St. Louis Magazine's 2009 Restaurant of the Year
By Dave Lowry
After the Ovation
Life with Neal E. Boyd, a year after winning America's Got Talent
By Jarrett Medlin
Portfolio: Second Act
An exclusive portfoio of the Kiel Opera House
Photographs by Michael Eastman
We're Surrounded!
100 sights and surprises in Missouri's eight bordering states
By Margaret Bauer, Jeannette Cooperman, Bryan A. Hollerbach, Christy Marshall, Jarrett Medlin, Stefene Russell, and Stephen Schenkenberg
Lonely Brains Club
They're about 1 percent of the top 2 percent (but who's counting?). And they join Mensa to talk to each other.
By Jeannette Cooperman
- Web Extra: A Mensa Mini-Test (with answers!)
- Web Extra: "St. Louis' Genius," a bonus profile on Ron Hoeflin
A Conversation With Gene Lynn
Crooner and clubman
By Jeannette Cooperman
FOOD & DRINK
- First Look: Quintessential
By George Mahe - Review: JFires' Market Bistro
By Dave Lowry
- Frugal Foodie: Crepes in the City
By Rose Martelli
- Kitchen Q&A: Jorge and Nori Calvo, of Mango
By George Mahe
- Liquid Assets: My Favorite Four Reposados
By Chris Hoel
- Ins, Outs, and Almosts
By George Mahe
Culture & Events
- First Stop: Webster Film Series
The documentary Rocaterrania
By Stefene Russell - Space Man
The Pultizer's retrospective of Gordon Matta-Clark's "anarchitecture" is timely, inspiring, and an opportunity for St. Louis to start a larger conversation about its identity as a city.
By Stefene Russell - Whistling Past the Graveyard
Hanging out with the famous (and not so famous) dead at Bellefontaine Cemetary
By Byron Kerman
Web Extra: A Flickr slideshow
FLASHBACK
1900: Ghost in the Machine
