WEB EXCLUSIVES THIS MONTH
- Check out extended interviews and additional photos of the ST. Louisans featured in this month's Cherokee photo essay.
- Get more on the food truck phenomenon, including trucks' Twitter feeds and menus.
- Watch a sneak peek inside Home Wine Kitchen, one of St. Louis' newest dining destinations.
- Browse our online gallery of stylish fall outwear, comprising additional items from this months "Things We Love."
- Learn more about the Tavern's Hawaiian connection.
- Discover more about what it's like to be a cryptographer.
- Read an extended Q&A with chef Kelly English.
- Find out more about how the Clamorgans found their place from author Julie Winch.
- Learn more about Shadow Traffic author Richard Burgin.
- Submit your pet for our pet contest.
Note: For each new issue, St. Louis Magazine publishes only a select number of articles online. 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. —Jarrett Medlin, Editor-in-Chief
WHAT'S ONLINE
Online on stlmag.com
BEHIND THE SCENES
The making of this issue
FROM THE EDITOR
Seasonal Specials
By Jarrett Medlin
FEEDBACK
CURRENT
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First Shot: Guggenheim at the Museum (Web Exclusive: View some of Guggenheim's stills)
By Jeannette Cooperman -
The Buzz: Sex, Lies, and Property (Web Exclusive:Read an extended Q&A with author Julie Winch.)
How the Clamorgans found their place
By Jeannette Cooperman -
The Buzz: Top Gun
How a nearsighted pacifist earned her wings.
By Rosalind Early -
The Buzz: The Return of Momo
An indie filmmaker brings the state's one-time famous monster back to life with a new, low-budget horror flick.
By Byron Kerman -
The Buzz: Historic Haunts
What's really inside Waterloo's Peterstown House Museum?
By Byron Kerman -
What It's Like to be a Cryptographer (Web Exclusive: Discover more about what it's like to be a cryptographer.)
By Byron Kerman -
Agenda
Our five picks for the month
GLITTERATI
See these and more at our Party Pics page.
STYLE
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Things We Love: Stepping Out (Web Exclusive: Browse our online gallery of stylish fall outwear, comprising additional items from this month's "Things We Love.")
As the temperature outside goes down, here's how to bundle up.
By Jan Leach -
Shop Talk: Runway Reality
Project Runway contestant Laura Kathleen Planck opens up about the judges, the competition...and green M&Ms.
By Jeanette Kozlowski -
Stylish Subtleties: Belle of the Fall
St. Louis native Heather Korn's jewelry line, BelleStyle has gone from the Midwest to the wardrobes of L.A. celebs.
By Jan Leach
SPORTS
With Everything on the Line
Runner Serena Ramsey Burla's life has been measured in hours, minutes, and seconds—but it's impossible to measure her will.
By Jennifer Rowe
COMMUNITY
Work and Love
There's nothing more depressing than feeling useless. Independence Center celebrates 30 years of just the opposite.
By Jeannette Cooperman
THINK AGAIN
At War With the Girl (Scouts) Next Door
Why Hazelwood and other cities could use a little touch of Mayberry.
By Ray Hartmann
COVER FEATURE
The 25 Best New Restaurants in St. Louis, Plus SLM's Restaurant of the Year (Web Exclusives: Watch a sneak peek inside Home Wine Kitchen, one of St. Louis' newest dining destinations, and learn more about The Tavern.)
By Byron Kerman, Dave Lowry, George Mahe, Katie O'Connor, and Joe and Ann Pollack
Photographs by Katherine Bish, Ashley Gieseking, Kevin A. Roberts, and Jennifer Silverberg
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The Food-Truck Phenomenon (Web Exclusive: Get more on the food truck phenomenon, including trucks' Twitter feeds and menus.)
Among St. Louis' newest dining trends: eateries on wheels
By Byron Kerman
ADDITIONAL FEATURES
The Bureau Post 9/11
FBI Agents still wear suits and ties, follow tight protocols, speak in acronyms, exude intensity. But today's FBI has social skills and a sense of humor—the kinds that comes from admitting you're human and all too vulnerable.
By Jeannette Cooperman
Portrait of a Neighborhood (Check out extended interviews and additional photos of the ST. Louisans featured in this month's Cherokee photo essay.)
The people and places of Cherokee Street.
By Stefene Russell
Photographs by Kevin A. Roberts
Want to Really Get Away?
It's hard to get out of St. Louis when you're St. Louis Magazine. But we know you travel. Even with Lambert hubless and Homeland Security doing virtual laparascopies, you travel. So instead of humbly Googling or hitting up travel agents, we sat down with St. Louisans who visit their favorite city many times a year. Here's their best advice.
By Jeannette Cooperman
A CONVERSATION WITH JONATHAN FRANZEN
Novel ideas
By Stefene Russell
FOOD & DRINK
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First Look: Fox & Hounds Tavern
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Review: Big Sky Café
Because there aren't enough autumn dinners to pass up one like this.
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The Well-Seasoned Life: Next Mex
Milagro Modern Mexican: Brothers Adam and Jason Tilford deliver a shot of nuevo to Webster Groves
By Joe and Ann Pollack -
Kitchen Q&A with Kelly English (Web Exclusive: Read an extended Q&A with chef Kelly English.)
A Louisiana chef puts a creole spin on his steakhouse at Harrah's.
By George Mahe -
Liquid Assets: Oaky Dokey
A new style of sauvignon blanc emerges.
By Chris Hoel -
Ins, Outs, and Almosts
By George Mahe -
The SLM Restaurant Guide
Plus the following box-outs: "Food-Geek Speak," "Field Trip," "Micro Rave," and "Fall Recipe Idea."
CULTURE & EVENTS
- First Stop: Left Bank Books (Web Exclusive: Learn more about Shadow Traffic author Richard Burgin.)
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Richard Burgin: Shadow Traffic
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Cameo: Walt Feels Fine
Psychedelic-folk singer Walt Winston didn't win a million dollars on America's Got Talent! this season. But that doesn't mean he's giving up.
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Out & About: The Secular and the Sacred
A breakdown of "Sukkah City STL" at Wash. U., where architectural design, religion, and politics publicly intersect.
By Rosalind Early - The SLM Calendar (with Critic's Picks in Visual Art and Theater)
FLASHBACK
1896: Notes From Underground
By Stefene Russell
