December 2008

Hopeful Romantics

Inside the gentlest creative mind in St. Louis

Artist Sandra Marchewa curates one of St. Louis’ tiniest—but most clever and accessible—galleries

Expat St. Louisan and former Streetside Records exec Tom Lunt is running the coolest record company in the country: Numero Group, which reissues the best soul, power pop and folk you’ve never heard

Bill Jakob arrived in Gerald, Mo., earlier this year with a badge, guns and a promise to put the small town’s drug dealers behind bars. Today, Jakob’s the one facing jail time

Owner, Jamieson Design

Centuries ago, horrified purists at l’Académie Française scolded the rural French away from speaking blunt, colorful Old French. But the language survived in Missouri, and a young fiddler’s keeping it alive

Karilyn Ashley Surratt