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Washington
Post Takes a Look at St. Louis
in early July, the Washington Post touted St. Louis as an idyllic
getaway. “St. Louis is a poetic place, and its languor and present-day
quietude only add to its appeal,” says writer Tim Page, who spent
a year in Missouri as artistic adviser and creative chair for
the St. Louis Symphony. And now that he is away from the city,
“the easy friendliness and slow pace of St. Louis seem something
of a dream. A pleasant dream, and one in which more visitors should
indulge.”
Page takes a nostalgic look at some of his old haunts and favorite
neighborhoods such as the Central West End and Soulard. It describes
the former as “a charismatic mixture of spacious residences, good
restaurants and unusual stores, with an air of comfortable, affluent
bohemia. This is one of the most distinguished and well-preserved
residential areas in the U.S.”
Page also recommends a visit to Forest Park. “Forest Park itself
is large (a third bigger than New York’s Central Park), fastidiously
kept, reasonably safe and decidedly handsome.”
And of course he’s impressed by the Arch, “Finnish architect Eero
Saarinen’s stainless steel masterpiece. It took some time to appreciate
its stark and radical beauty, its pure, superlative sense of place.”
Also on his list of “must sees” are the City Museum, The Black
World History Wax Museum and Scott Joplin’s House.
And if that’s not enough, he even puts a positive spin on the
weather. Stating that “St. Louis weather has had a bad rap.” Despite
the region’s sultry summers, he notes that fall and spring are
“long, luxuriant and, on the best days, imbued with a cool, timeless
lambency that is almost unbelievably beautiful.”
Sports Illustrated Names St. Louis “Best Baseball Town in America”
With sluggers like Mark McGwire and Jim Edmonds gladly sinking
roots in St. Louis, the rampaging Cardinals are strengthening
their ties to America’s best baseball city,” so begins the seven-page
cover article in the July 3 edition of Sports Illustrated.
“No other city boasts a more consistent, ceaselessly pleasant
fan base than St. Louis’,” the article continues. “St. Louis has
a long, fabled romance with baseball. As former Cardinals player
and manager and current Yankees manager Joe Torre puts it, “You
play for the Cardinals, you’re a part of royalty.”
The enhanced visibility that the Sports Illustrated cover story
brings occurs at a time when the St. Louis region continues to
earn plaudits from other national magazines such as Inc., which
recently ranked St. Louis #2 in the nation just behind Cleveland
on the publication’s “Inner City 100” list of thriving inner city
business locations; and Forbes, which recently examined the region’s
robust entrepreneurial health. Baseball America magazine also
named St. Louis the Best Baseball City in America last year.
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