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2 months ago | 
thestl.com | Nancy Stiles |Lauren Milford |R.J. Hartbeck
The best T-shirts are often the cheekiest — at least for Randy and Jeff Vines. At their Cherokee Street shop, STL Stylehouse, you’ll find tees, stickers, hats, posters, and all manner of St. Louis swag. Jeff’s favorite shirt design actually predates the store, which the twin brothers opened at the corner of Cherokee Street and Compton Avenue in 2010.
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2 months ago | 
thestl.com | Cheryl Baehr |Lauren Milford |R.J. Hartbeck
Danish Nagda describes himself as a reluctant entrepreneur. A physician by training, Nagda assumed he would spend his professional life as a clinician, and was well on his way down that path as an ENT resident at Washington University School of Medicine. Then, life presented him with a situation he could not ignore — one that would alter his professional trajectory and has the potential to change the health care industry at large.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
thestl.com | Heather Riske |Lauren Milford |R.J. Hartbeck
Lia Holter has recently had a few friends rewatch the fourth season of TLC’s “The Next Great Baker,” the reality competition she won with fellow pastry chef Al Watson in 2014. In addition to a $100,000 cash prize, Holter won the opportunity to move to Las Vegas or Hoboken, New Jersey to work in one of the renowned bakeries owned by host Buddy Valastro (aka the Cake Boss). It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. So why, her friends wondered, didn’t she jump at the chance?
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
thestl.com | Valerie Schremp Hahn |Lauren Milford |R.J. Hartbeck
It’s a Friday night on Delmar Boulevard in St. Louis, and shoppers stroll among booths at the maker’s market, eyeing crocheted sheep stuffies; handmade soaps; and oversized, metal flowers bursting with color. They line up for pickle martinis at the Deli Divine booth, cauliflower nuggets at the Beyond Sweet Kitchen + Bar booth, homemade chocolate chip pumpkin bread from The Fountain on Delmar booth.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
thestl.com | Heather Riske |Lauren Milford |R.J. Hartbeck
The history of St. Louis brick isn’t just evident in the gingerbread houses of south city or the bricks lining Main Street in St. Charles. It stretches far beyond city bounds to landmarks across the country, including Chicago’s iconic Navy Pier and the towering Chrysler Building in New York City — both of which are made of bricks from St. Louis-based Hydraulic-Press Brick Company, which was once the largest brick producer in the world.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
thestl.com | Cheryl Baehr |Lauren Milford |R.J. Hartbeck
About a year ago, Ricardo Recci Gonzalez was walking through City Foundry STL with his brother, Angel Recci, when he came upon iHeartMedia’s St. Louis offices. At the time, Gonzalez was working in the insurance industry, using his skills in sales, insurance, and finance to uplift the St. Louis metro area’s Hispanic community.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
thestl.com | Ginger O’Donnell |Lauren Milford |R.J. Hartbeck
Scholar and innovator Kaiyu Guan was given the first name “Kaiyu” by his grandfather, which means “explore and discover the universe.” Today, Guan’s work is closely tied to the land, and the Midwest in particular. However, he’s fulfilling his grandfather’s aspiration via geospatial technology. “I’m using satellites as my eyes to see the universe,” he says.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
thestl.com | Valerie Schremp Hahn |Lauren Milford |R.J. Hartbeck
Great Rivers Greenway is in the business of making connections. The greenways connect people to nature, to local transit, to local businesses, to local history and culture. They connect neighborhoods to neighborhoods, people to people. Great Rivers Greenway, on the cusp of its 25th anniversary in 2025, has built 135 miles of greenways so far in St. Louis, St. Louis County, and St. Charles County.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
thestl.com | Alecia Humphreys |Lauren Milford |R.J. Hartbeck
Between the games, grub, and good times, festivals can feel like magic to a child. For Denny Foster, attending an annual festival on Festus Main Street was more like magic in the making — or rather a foreshadowing of the future. “I remember when I was 8 or 9 going (to Twin City Days) with my parents and just seeing how cool it was,” recalls Foster of Festus’ annual fall festival, now in its 30th year.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
thestl.com | Heather Riske |Liz Miller |R.J. Hartbeck
When Carlos Zamora and his family immigrated to the U.S. from Cuba by way of Ecuador in 2006, he brought with him about $7,000, his nine-month-old child in his arms, and an extra checked bag full of posters. His family couldn’t believe they were paying to transport a stack of posters, but to Zamora, they were so much more. “The minute I arrived, I put the posters up in the apartment we had, and they immediately created my world,” he says. “More than anything, it was emotional for me.
