Stefene Russell
Russell was the culture editor for St. Louis Magazine from 2005–2018.
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The best parks in St. Louis
Are you looking to take a stroll or play with the kids? Work up a sweat on a hike or while playing a sport? Appreciate art or history? Just enjoy nature? There’s a park for that, as highlighted in this expansive guide of more than 50 metro area parks.
A historic look back at Red Water Tower on Bissell Street
At one time, the city almost lost the tower, but today it remains a landmark in Hyde Park.
How Hannah Headrick finds and restores great Modernist furniture
She began selling furniture as part of the Rocket Century collective, then opened Confluence Modern with upholsterer Jeff Swift. Today, you can see her work on Instagram, @secondhandhome314.
A look back at the commissioner of school supplies in St. Louis
“You can find anything here, from a mousetrap to an electric dynamo,” Charles Lee Barr told the ‘St. Louis Globe-Democrat’ in 1933.
Here are 25 things you probably don’t know about Missouri, as it turns 200
The Show-Me State celebrates its bicentennial, after becoming the nation’s 24th state on August 10, 1821.
A look back at elections in 1985, 20 years after passage of the Voting Rights Act
The year before, when key parts were set to expire, politicians fought to rewrite it to put the burden on the voter to prove discrimination.
G-CADD reopens its (naturally socially distanced) campus this weekend
Come see new work—and “a subterranean verdant oasis.”
A look back at Lafayette Elementary’s ‘hygiene boss’
Florence Walsh became Lafayette’s shower lady in the 1950s.
St. Louis has a long history of dramatic animal escapes
A group of pigs, for instance, lounged on a city street in 1903.
A historic look back at a St. Louis community garden in 1967
As many city gardeners know, a plant freshly placed in the ground is the ultimate totem of optimism.
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