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ALIVE on the Scene: Peabody Opera House Opening Night Gala
After writing a story in our October issue about the renovation and long-awaited reopening of Peabody Opera House, I was thrilled and honored to receive an opportunity to attend the Opening Night Gala this weekend—I couldn’t pass up the chance to see Aretha Franklin and Jay Leno perform live, and to get an up-close look at the like-new opera house. As a transplant to St. Louis, I don’t have a personal history with the venue as many do, but I can still respect its considerable stature as a cultural and historical icon of the city I now call home.
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Park Avenue Coffee To Open Second Location
Along with my coffee this morning, I received some good news from Park Avenue Coffee owner Dale Schotte. He signed the lease yesterday afternoon for the Bubba Tea space at 417 N. 10th street Downtown and will open a second location of Park Ave in late February. “I wanted to better serve our customers who stop by for coffee on their way to work Downtown. The location is great for both them and visitors to St. Louis and we hope to only further our reputation for coffee and gooey butter cake” says Schotte.
Park Ave fans can expect the same… more …
Park Ave fans can expect the same… more …
New Café Opens Downtown Tomorrow
“Eat. Browse. Learn.” is the motto for a unique café opening Downtown, located at 1629 Locust Street. Whiz Tech Café will feature food, technology services and eventually space for meetings and teleconference for small businesses. Open daily from 6:30am to midnight, the 6,000 square-foot café will serve a menu of bagged snacks, coffee, deli sandwiches, pizza, hot dogs, milkshakes, smoothies and more while offering services like IT consultation, troubleshooting, web design, laptop repair and spyware and virus removal. Date recovery and deli sandwiches? We’ll take it.
Downtown…Everything’s Waiting For You
I’m a city snob. I try not to be, honest. But since I live Downtown and play and dine there more than any other area of St. Louis, it’s hard not to be. I grew up in the ‘burbs,’ moving around with my family from one military base to another every few years. Every block was identical to the next, where cookie-cutter houses with manicured yards spattered every street in every city we moved, whether we were in Tuscan, Monterey or Heidelberg, Germany.
So, when it came time to look for a place to call my own, I chose St.… more …
So, when it came time to look for a place to call my own, I chose St.… more …
I Scream for Gelato
Gelato has it rough. It’s not the classic, cool American treat; it doesn’t have the same appeal for most as a bowl of rocky road and kids don’t hit the ground running when they hear the “gelato” man driving down the block. St. Louis has always been an ice cream or frozen custard town—but if you ask me where I’m going for dessert or where I go for a break from the summer heat, it’s most often Gelateria Tavolini.
I don’t consider myself anti-ice cream—I like a good ole’ milkshake or scoop of chocolate ice cream as much as the next… more …
I don’t consider myself anti-ice cream—I like a good ole’ milkshake or scoop of chocolate ice cream as much as the next… more …
