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The Old Courthouse in Downtown St. Louis Is Ready to Reopen

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Valerie Schremp Hahn |Bryan Birks

The 19th-century Old Courthouse, part of the city's downtown and Gateway Arch National Park, is set to reopen in May after a $27.5 million renovation. The Old Courthouse in St. Louis, which was completed in the 1860s, shares part of the city's skyline with the Gateway Arch, which was completed in the 1960s. Credit... This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times.
An Illinois Museum Where the Exhibits are Giant-Sized

Oct 23, 2024 | nytimes.com | Valerie Schremp Hahn |Bryan Birks

This article is part of the Fine Arts & Exhibits special section on the art world stretching boundaries with new artists, new audiences and new technology. For more than two decades in this no-stoplight town in central Illinois, a 19-foot-tall fiberglass man has stood alongside a stretch of Route 66, holding a giant hot dog. Now, up the block at the American Giants Museum, more giants have joined him.
TV STARS DANCER ADV19 6

Nov 16, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Bryan Birks

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save — PHOTO MOVED IN ADVANCE AND NOT FOR USE - ONLINE OR IN PRINT - BEFORE NOV. 19, 2023. — Derek Hough at the Stifel Theater in St. Louis, Nov. 5, 2023.
POUR HOME WINEMAKING 5

Oct 24, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Bryan Birks

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save A bottle press used by the amateur winemakers Lisa and John Nordman, at their home in Fenton, Mo., on Oct. 10, 2023. An estimated 500,000 hobbyists in North America are making wine with purchased grapes, juice, even berries.
GLOBAL WEAPONS SALES 1

Oct 17, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Bryan Birks

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Workers building an F-15 fighter jet, at Boeing’s factory in St. Louis on Sept. 26, 2023. The conflict between Israel and Hamas is just the latest impetus behind a boom in international arms sales that is bolstering profits and weapons-making capacity among American suppliers.
MO GENDER CLINIC 3

Aug 25, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Bryan Birks

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MO GENDER CLINIC 7

Aug 25, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Bryan Birks

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MO GENDER CLINIC 1

Aug 25, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Bryan Birks

Jamie Reed, a former case manager at a youth gender clinic affiliated with Washington University, in St. Louis on May 11, 2023. The youth gender clinic in St. Louis, like others around the world, was overwhelmed by new patients and struggled to provide them with mental health care. (Bryan Birks/The New York Times).
MO GENDER CLINIC 5

Aug 23, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Bryan Birks

Heidi, a parent in the St. Louis area who requested anonymity due to privacy concerns, on Aug. 13, 2023. She said she was stunned to read a “twisted” description of her teenage daughter’s case by Jamie Reed, a former case manager at a youth gender clinic affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis. (Bryan Birks/The New York Times)
MO GENDER CLINIC 4

Aug 23, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Bryan Birks

Becky Hormuth, who praised the youth gender clinic’s doctors for their approach to her son’s mental health, in Wentsville, Mo. on Aug. 8, 2023. The doctors diagnosed her 15-year-old with autism, she said, and connected him with a dietitian to help treat his eating disorder — before prescribing testosterone. Now, at 16, her son is “better than he’s ever been,” Hormuth said. (Bryan Birks/The New York Times)