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ST. LOUIS — Mark Loehrer has a popular Instagram account where he recolors vintage photos of people and places in St. Louis. He works at a history museum and colorizes the photos to change the way people think of St. Louis. He has been doing it since 2019 and each photo takes around four hours […]
The nonprofit says it will “restore them to dynamic new spaces”
Webster student Carter Reeves is going deep on St. Louis’ controversial old-timey streetcar
Trolling through newspaper archives for the good stuff can take months or years. The quirky, the weird, the offbeat is always buried in the backlog,...
Photograph courtesy of Che R. Applewhaite On the day of a summer 2019 car-wash fundraiser for the R.C. Striders, a junior track team based in St. Louis, almost everyone from the 20-person squad spent more than five hours in the sweltering sun. They’d qualified for the Junior Olympics and needed funds to help get there. Usually, practice at the Normandy High School track was strenuous, not only from the physical exertion but from the ghosts: Mike Brown was once a student there. His killing by police officer Darren Wilson in 2014 ignited more than “400 days of sustained direct action,” ...