Professional fun-haver Melissa Meinzer is the editor of the Weekend newsletter. She’s been in newspapers or magazines in some form or another since the early aughts. A 2010 transplant from Pittsburgh, she’s been in St. Louis long enough to have long-lost favorite venues and restaurants, but not long enough to care where you went to high school. She lives with her husband and a lot of excellent cats in Tower Grove South.
In France, the ‘Fête nationale française’ is a day for military parades. Here in St. Louis, it’s a day for whimsical partying and celebrating our French connection.