Forest Park

Arts

Forest Park Forever raises $139 million to care for the park

Mary Delach Leonard

Forest Park Forever has raised more than $139 million in gifts and pledges to fund needed improvements and to ensure the long-term care of Forest Park,…

Artist rendering of a new MetroLink station being constructed between Boyle Avene and Sarah Street, the first segment of the proposed Chouteau Greenway.

Government, Politics & Issues

Great Rivers Greenway invites public to meet design finalists for Chouteau Greenway

Mary Delach Leonard

Great Rivers Greenway will introduce four teams vying to design the proposed Chouteau Greenway at two public events the first week of January.A jury of…

The Muny's 100th season includes several favorites that will return to the stage of the outdoor theater.

Arts

The Muny celebrates its 100th season by staging many audience favorites

Nancy Fowler

The Muny outdoor theater today announced a 100th season that honors its St. Louis heritage, classic musicals and the African-American rendition of…

Sept. 30, 2017. Dail Chambers works on a piece called A Song for the Black Rising at the St.ART event. Chambers said the piece examines repetition and and reflects the Jason Stockley verdict protests and the 20th-century Great Migration.

Arts

Street art comes to St. Louis parks to document despair and hope at a time of unrest

Nancy Fowler

The two-day St.ART festival this weekend is billed as a street art event, but it takes places in parks, not streets.It opened Saturday at Langenberg Field…

Government, Politics & Issues

Forest Park bridge project begins Tuesday near Boathouse and Muny

Mary Delach Leonard

A $3.1 million project in Forest Park begins Tuesday with the demolition of a bridge that connects Government Drive to Pagoda Circle, requiring visitors…

Forest Park turns 140 years old this year.

Arts

Everyone loves Forest Park, but how did the park come to be and how has it evolved over time?

Kelly Moffitt

Whether you’re new to St. Louis or you’ve been here a long time, you’ve probably heard the factoid that Forest Park is bigger than New York’s Central Park…

A pond inside the John F. Kennedy Memorial Forest in Forest Park. July 2017.

Arts

Curious Louis searches for deer in Forest Park and discovers that bucks sometimes stop here

Mary Delach Leonard

Ecologist Amy Witt of Forest Park Forever was leading a nature walk through the John F. Kennedy Memorial Forest, a wooded habitat on the park’s…

Campers listen to Katie Dreas of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service explain foliage during a summer camp at Little Creek Nature Center on July 17, 2017.

Education

The natural classroom: Summer programs put biology in kids’ hands

Ryan Delaney

Children benefit from a balanced diet of screen time and outdoors time, studies show.In the St. Louis area, several camps and summer youth jobs focus on…

File photo: Under the leadership of Rick Dildine, attendance at Shakespeare Festival St. Louis has grown by 55 percent and contributed revenue has increased 38 percent.

Arts

Shakespeare Festival St. Louis’ Rick Dildine resigns for position in Alabama

Nancy Fowler

The executive and artistic director of Shakespeare Festival St. Louis is resigning to take another job.Rick Dildine will become artistic director of the…

Bombus balteatus, commonly known as the golden-belted bumblebee, pollinates a sky pilot in Colorado.

Health, Science & Environment

You can help save pollinators — by taking photos of bees

Eli Chen

When a native bee received federal protection under the Endangered Species Act for the first time earlier this year, it drew an attention to a growing…