Landscaping

Milkweed (at left), serviceberry (upper right) and buttonbush are just a few of the native plants that help St. Louis-area birds, butterflies and other wildlife thrive.

Thinking Outside The Lawn: Fostering Native Habitats, Caring For Natural World Right In The Backyard

Evie Hemphill

Even as an especially wintry winter continues to make itself known across the St. Louis region, spring is more and more on residents’ minds – and will…

People gather inside a giant inflatable bubble to listen to presentations about art

Arts

Artists create work that explores the edges of St. Louis

As the sun sets, several people circle around giant plastic disk laid out behind the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. The disk inflates and attendees are…

A pile of bricks sits in the left hand corner of the image while behind it rest pallets of brick and a building.

Arts

As an old building comes down, St. Louis artists use its bricks to rethink city's vacant spaces

What would you do with $2,500 and three pallet loads of brick? Four St. Louis art groups and collaborators will soon have an answer in the next phase of a…

Arts

Beacon update: Wild Ones tame south side 'wilderness'

Dale Singer

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Dec. 29, 2009 - The neighbors who weren't all that wild about Rick Allard's wild-looking yard in…