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Best Fairy Garden
Sure, you've seen fairy gardens along the sidewalks of city streets — a little cottage here, a kitschy fairy queen there, some shiny stones creating a path for a unicorn between them. But the...
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Best Tribute
When Tina Turner died in May, there was an outpouring of emotion across the world as fans mourned. We felt the loss most acutely here in St. Louis because we considered Turner one of our own.
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Best Wedding We Weren't Invited To
That final episode of Mad Men is iconic for good reason, as it perfectly captures 1950s ad man Don Draper moving into the groovy late-1960s by both achieving hippie spiritual enlightenment and also...
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Best Zoo Animal
We've had many favorite animals at the Saint Louis Zoo, but we were still not prepared for the joy that would enter our hearts when we encountered Rhubarb the ginger monkey. A Francois' langur...
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Best Old Building
3610 Grandel Square, kranzberg-artsfoundation.org/the-grandel Today the Grandel Theatre is a multi-use space holding a theater, room for private events and the Dark Room, a nonprofit performance...
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Best Place (Not Your House) to Avoid Meeting Anyone
601 South Holmes Avenue, Kirkwood; bikegrantstrail.com Grant's Trail is 10 miles of walking and biking bliss, where the only human interaction you're expected to participate in is maybe nodding when...
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Best Place to Meet Women
Multiple locations including 13343 Manchester Road, Des Peres; traderjoes.com Now that "girl dinner" has become a pop culture phenomenon, everybody has finally figured out that women just want to eat...
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Best Place to Meet Men
3503 Roger Place, friendlyssportsbar.com If you're looking to meet a cishet man who is into cishet man things like sports and fried food, head on down to Friendly's, because that's pretty much all...
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Best Great New Hope
If we're being honest, the Circuit Attorney's Office has been a heck of a lot less fun to cover since Kim Gardner resigned in May. No, the office hasn't been perfect since former federal prosecutor...
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Best Local Boy Gone Bad
Former alderman Brandon Bosley got a head start on the 2023 competition when, a few days before last Christmas, he pulled a gun on a woman lying in the snow and threatened to shoot her — all while...
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Best Local Girl Gone Bad
We defended Kim Gardner a long time — longer than we should have. We knew the justice system needed reform, and we were hopeful that, for all her flaws, she could be a change agent.
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Best Lawyer
Mary Anne Sedey is well under five feet tall, with the kind of high-energy warmth that leads people to deploy metaphors like "firecracker" and "pistol." It's impossible not to enjoy her company —...
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Best Activist
Missouri has been on a "killing spree." That's the way Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty co-director Michelle Smith describes the state's use of capital punishment.
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Best Neighborhood to Live in
For the modern urbanist, Shaw seemingly has it all: street after street of attractive homes, storefront businesses, great park access, young families and even a corner ice cream shop. But more than...
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Best Busker
instagram.com/poopyknife He stands in the heat wielding a keytar — a whirlwind of synth notes, jean shorts and cheetah-print boxers.
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Best Local Follow on X
The McPherson blog has been quiet as of late, but maybe that's because the man behind it, Jack Grone, has moved his commentary over to X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter. @McPherSTL's...
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Best Social Media Influencer
St. Louis isn't the easiest city from which to launch yourself to social media stardom. The most-Instagrammable of backdrops — white sand beaches, picturesque mountains, McLaren dealerships — are hard...
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Welcome to the Very Best of St. Louis 2023
In some cities, the good things are obvious. When I lived in Los Angeles, it was a cliche to talk about being able to ski and surf in the same day — but yeah, you could do that, and both the ocean and...
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